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positively

/ˈpɑ.zɪ.tɪv.li/ adverb B1
  1. In a positive manner. · He approached the interview positively.
  2. With certainty. · I will positively be there at 8 a.m.
  3. Absolutely; utterly.
  4. Very. · I had a positively wonderful time.
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That book made me positively ill.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 21 · B2
I call it positively providential.”
Anne of Green Gables, p. 56 · C1
The way Marilla dresses her is positively ridiculous, that’s what, and I’ve ached to tell her so plainly a dozen times.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 193 · C1
“I’m positively certain, Diana, that life can never be quite the same again as it was in those olden days,” she said mournfully, as if referring to a period of at least fifty years back.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 200 · C1

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