positif
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of positif
from French: positive
Example Sentences
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Mauvaise Nouvelle EBOLA: Le Mali vient d'enregistrer son premier cas positif.
From Time • Oct. 23, 2014
Cette règle fait désormais partie du droit positif.
From The League of Nations and its Problems Three Lectures by Oppenheim, L. (Lassa)
Dieu est le superlatif, dont le positif est lhomme, says Carl Vogt; meaning, that the popular idea of a numen is that of a magnified and non-natural man.
From The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
That both Ch�teaubriand and Lamartine belong rather to the imaginative than to the positif class, cannot be denied; but they are renowned throughout the world, and France is proud of them.
From Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) by Trollope, Frances Milton
And therefore positif lawe and swich decree Is broke al-day for love, in ech degree.
From Astronomical Lore in Chaucer by Grimm, Florence M.
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