positif
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of positif
from French: positive
Example Sentences
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And therefore positif lawe and swich decree Is broke al-day for love, in ech degree.
From Astronomical Lore in Chaucer by Florence M. Grimm
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 Sir Richard Francis Burton
Mademoiselle, who prided herself on possessing "un esprit positif," and on entertaining a decided preference for dry studies, kept her young cousin to the same as closely as she could.
From Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
No English lexicon as yet seems to justify the use of this word in one of the senses of the French positif, as when a historian, for instance, speaks of the esprit positif of Bonaparte.
From Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 2: Carlyle by John Morley
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