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Definition
certain (having no doubt; or used for emphasis)
- You positively recognize M. de Morcerf as the officer, Fernand Mondego?Chapters 85-86 (93% in)
positively = with certainty
- I think you are wrongly informed, and know positively that, on the contrary, it is very fine weather in that direction.Chapters 9-10 (45% in)
- Some insisted she was making for Corsica, others the Island of Elba; bets were offered to any amount that she was bound for Spain; while Africa was positively reported by many persons as her intended course; but no one thought of Monte Cristo.Chapters 25-26 (17% in)
- This positive assurance seemed to give Caderousse a little courage.Chapters 27-28 (2% in)
- The bandit's laws are positive; a young girl belongs first to him who carries her off, then the rest draw lots for her, and she is abandoned to their brutality until death relieves her sufferings.Chapters 33-34 (18% in)
- "I must positively find out who and what he is," said Franz, rising from his seat.Chapters 33-34 (82% in)
- Franz had, as yet, found nothing to say; he had come to no determination, and as nothing in the count's manner manifested the wish that he should recognize him, he did not know whether to make any allusion to the past, or wait until he had more proof; besides, although sure it was he who had been in the box the previous evening, he could not be equally positive that this was the man he had seen at the Colosseum.Chapters 35-36 (2% in)
- "His excellency the Count of Monte Cristo had," he said, "given positive orders that the carriage was to remain at their lordships' orders all day, and they could therefore dispose of it without fear of indiscretion."Chapters 35-36 (63% in)
- "I pledge you my honor," returned the count, "that I mean to do as I have said; both inclination and positive necessity compel me to visit Paris."Chapters 37-38 (78% in)
- "Shall we make a positive appointment for a particular day and hour?" inquired the count; "only let me warn you that I am proverbial for my punctilious exactitude in keeping my engagements."Chapters 37-38 (79% in)
- Well, I had promised Madame de Villefort the loan of my carriage to drive to-morrow to the Bois; but when my coachman goes to fetch the grays from the stables they are gone—positively gone.Chapters 47-48 (12% in)
- "Edward, you naughty boy," exclaimed Madame de Villefort, snatching the mutilated book from the urchin's grasp, "you are positively past bearing; you really disturb the conversation; go, leave us, and join your sister Valentine in dear grandpapa Noirtier's room."Chapters 51-52 (60% in)
- "Yes," replied Morcerf, "but that will plunge my mother into positive grief."Chapters 53-54 (71% in)
- We can positively assert that his majesty did not quit the Pont-Neuf.Chapters 53-54 (78% in)
- "But sit down," said Monte Cristo; "really I do not know what I have been thinking of—I have positively kept you standing for the last quarter of an hour."Chapters 55-56 (16% in)
- "So, sir, you lived at Lucca, did you? You were rich, noble, held in great esteem—had all that could render a man happy?"
"All," said the major, hastily swallowing his biscuit, "positively all."Chapters 55-56 (20% in) - I dare not positively assert it, as he has been lost for so long a time.Chapters 55-56 (26% in)
- At first sight, the exterior of the house at Auteuil gave no indications of splendor, nothing one would expect from the destined residence of the magnificent Count of Monte Cristo; but this simplicity was according to the will of its master, who positively ordered nothing to be altered outside.Chapters 61-62 (52% in)
- The overseer would not have objected, while he was about it, to have made some improvements in the garden, but the count had positively forbidden it to be touched.Chapters 61-62 (55% in)
- To that question I can answer positively; no, sir, he had not, because he applied to me six months ago for the particulars he required, and as I did not know when I might again come to Paris, I recommended M. Cavalcanti to him.Chapters 69-70 (28% in)
- "But you cannot break it off in this way; the Morcerfs are depending on this union."
"Indeed."
"Positively."Chapters 75-76 (89% in) - But let it be done explicitly and positively. If he demands my daughter let him fix the day—declare his conditions;Chapters 75-76 (91% in)
- They positively refused.Chapters 89-90 (68% in)
- Debray did not defend himself very warmly, for the idea had sometimes crossed his mind; still, when he recollected the independent, proud spirit of Eugenie, he positively rejected it as utterly impossible, though the same thought again continually recurred and found a resting-place in his heart.Chapters 99-100 (8% in)
positively = with certainty
positively = with certainty
positive = absolute (used for emphasis)
positive = certain
positively = absolutely (used for emphasis)
positive = certain
positive = absolute (used for emphasis)
positive = absolute (used for emphasis)
positive = certain (having no doubt)
positively = absolutely (used for emphasis)
positively = absolutely (used for emphasis)
positive = absolute (used for emphasis)
positively = with certainty
positively = absolutely (used for emphasis)
positively = absolutely (used for emphasis)
positively = with certainty
positively = absolutely (used for emphasis)
positively = absolutely (used for emphasis)
positively = with certainty
positively = with certainty
positively = with certainty
positively = absolutely (used for emphasis)
positively = with certainty
There are no more uses of "positive" in The Count of Monte Cristo.
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