Word Finder - positively

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(manner) In a positive manner.

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He approached the interview positively.

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(modal) With certainty.

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I will positively be there at 8 a.m.

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(degree) Very.

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I had a positively wonderful time.

I feel like we are positively glowing.

It's positively gorgeous up there.

He was being positively rude.

The coast positively bristled with guns.

Both of you look at things positively.

The first tea-tray is positively electrified, and the second negatively.

She had to keep thinking positively.

Several experiments were tried, to determine positively whether or not she had any perception of sound.

The effects will positively impact future interviews.

Linss (6) found that an insulated conductor charged either positively or negatively lost its charge in the free atmosphere; the potential V after time t being connected with its initial value Vo by a formula of the type V = Voe - at where a is constant.

Again, if, whilst holding the electrified ebonite over the tray, we touch the latter for a moment and then withdraw the ebonite sheet, the tray will be found to be positively electrified.

But this view was too extreme for the council; the most Pius could hope for was to be declared immune from error, instead of positively inspired.

The unanimous vote of the electors made him the first president of the United States; their unanimous vote elected him for a second time in 17921 793 and even after he had positively refused to serve for a third term, two electors voted for him in 1796-1797.

In the case of the charged Leyden jar, he asserted that the inner coating of tinfoil had received more than its ordinary quantity of electricity, and was therefore electrified positively, or plus, while the outer coating of tinfoil having had its ordinary quantity of electricity diminished, was electrified negatively, or minus.

John Canton (1718-1772) made the important contribution to knowledge that electricity of either sign could be produced on nearly any body by friction with appropriate substances, and that a rod of glass roughened on one half was excited negatively in the rough part and positively in the smooth part by friction with the same rubber.

Canton (1 753, 1 754) When, for instance, a positively electrified body was found to induce upon another insulated conductor a charge of negative electricity on the side nearest to it, and a charge of positive electricity on the side farthest from it, this was explained by saying that the particles of each of the two electric fluids repelled one another but attracted those of the positive fluid.

Electric waves are produced wherever electrons are accelerated or retarded, that is, whenever the velocity of an electron is changed or accelerated positively or negatively.

The only work which can positively be ascribed to him is his Harmonica Institutio.

The term " holiness " in this connexion consists positively in the fulfilment of ceremonial obligations and negatively in abstaining from the defilement caused by heathen customs and superstitions, but it also includes obedience to the moral requirements of the religion of Yahweh.

He summed up his results in the general statement that "hydrogen, the alkaline substances, the metals and certain metallic oxides are attracted by negatively electrified metallic surfaces, and repelled by positively electrified metallic surfaces; and contrariwise, that oxygen and acid substances are attracted by positively electrified metallic surfaces and repelled by negatively electrified metallic surfaces; and these attractive and repulsive forces are sufficiently energetic to destroy or suspend the usual operation of elective affinity."

Louis Philippe was accused of secretly favouring the Carlists, and he positively refused to be a party to direct interference in Spain.

Geology has made it manifest that our earth must have been the seat of vegetable and animal life for an immense period of time; while the first appearance of man, though comparatively recent, is positively so remote, that an estimate between twenty and a hundred thousand years may fairly be taken as a minimum.

The only paintings positively recorded as done by him at Rome are two small panels for an official of the papal court, one of a child, the other of a Madonna, both now lost or unrecognized.

A crystal becomes positively and negatively electrified in alternate prism edges when its temperature changes.

On the other hand it is not positively distinguished either from the ethereal fire, or from the and the avayKf according to which all things occur.

With Cousin the absolute as the ground of being is grasped positively by the intelligence, and it renders all else intelligible; it is not as with Kant a certain hypothetical or regulative need.

With Schelling again Cousin agrees in regarding this supreme ground of all as positively apprehended, and as a source of development, but he utterly repudiates Schelling's method.

Thus Locke seems by implication to acknowledge something added by the mind to the original " simple ideas " of extension and succession; though he finds that what is added is not positively conceivable.

We fail when we try either positively to phenomenalize substance or to dispense with the superphenomenal abstraction.

For as for poverty, painful toil, disrepute, and such evils as men dread most, these, he argued, were positively useful as means of progress in spiritual freedom and virtue.

The only good of man is the pure existence of the soul, which in itself, apart from the contagion of the body, is perfectly free from error or defect; if only it can be restored to the untrammelled activity of its original being, nothing external, nothing bodily, can positively impair its perfect welfare.

We have, however, to distinguish in the case of the gospel between (1) absolute commands and (2) " counsels," which latter recommend, without positively ordering the monastic life of poverty, celibacy and obedience as the best method of effectively turning the will from earthly to heavenly things.

The negatively electrified sulphur is seen to attach itself to the positively electrified parts of the plate, and the positively electrified red lead to the negatively electrified parts.

In 1857, having been persuaded to make a play of the novel of Dalila, he brought out this piece at the Vaudeville, and enjoyed a brilliant success; on this occasion he positively broke through the consigne and went up to Paris to see his play rehearsed.

Or, another plan is that we can choose to engage positively with those who seem most amenable to change.

The mRNA was positively correlated with its simultaneous serum levels, and was higher in G/G genotype.

John Jones, for example, positively relishedthe thought of the impeachment.

Please note, mailing list members have to positively affirm they want to have their details displayed in this way.

The regimented North Korean military audiences listening stiffly to their great leader seem positively animated by comparison.

Lucy's pasta dish came without any pasta, but with rice, and my swamp crabs were positively anorexic.

Negatively charged antiprotons not in the company of a positively charged positron cannot reach the well.

Who is positively apoplectic if someone answers their phone during dinner?

Spread over 15 different appellations, his range positively rings with great Burgundian names!

We discussed the positively balmy conditions for February, both somewhat amazed to be perspiring in our fishing gear.

He was positively beaming as he noted that the audience was largely made up of lawyers and law students.

This charming little town is positively brimming with history, however.

If she responds positively to her feeding, she will let out a little burp, yawn and fall asleep.

In its face, Alan Greenspan, long regarded by leading capitalists as possessing positively magical powers, confessed bewilderment.

The interior is extremely spacious and offers plenty of leg and headroom for all passengers, while the boot is positively cavernous.

For a belief to positively cohere it must in some way be supported or made probable by the doxastic system with which it coheres.