positif
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of positif
from French: positive
Example Sentences
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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
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 Morley, John
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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