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Definition of Positivest
1. positive [adj] - See also: positive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Positivest
Literary usage of Positivest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1883)
"There is something, perhaps," he said, " in the positivest conception of mankind
as to one ever-changing and practically deathless Being. ..."
2. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1883)
"Hence the great English positivest elaborates a basis of reconciliation, and
offers this as an ultimatum of peace. But his plan is plainly involved in more ..."
3. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1883)
"Hence the great English positivest elaborates a basis of reconciliation, and
offers this as an ultimatum of peace. But his plan is plainly involved in more ..."
4. The Radical (1866)
"You will see the positivest element in it . It declares itself to be not atheistic ;
it neither denies nor affirms God ; it leaves the theological question ..."
5. Old-fashioned Ethics and Common-sense Metaphysics: With Some of Their by William Thomas Thornton (1873)
"Hume's sudden conversion, so amazing at first sight, from flattest denial to
positivest assertion of causal power, becomes intelligible when he is seen ..."
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