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Webster 1913 Edition
Positiveness
Pos′i-tive-ness
,Noun.
The quality or state of being positive; reality; actualness; certainty; confidence; peremptoriness; dogmatism. See
Positive
, Adj.
Positiveness
, pedantry, and ill manners. Swift.
The
positiveness
of sins of commission lies both in the habitude of the will and in the executed act too; the positiveness
of sins of omission is in the habitude of the will only. Norris.
Webster 1828 Edition
Positiveness
POS'ITIVENESS
,Noun.
The positiveness of sins of commission lies both in the habitude of the will and in the executed act too; the positiveness of sins of omission is in the habitude of the will only.
1.
Undoubting assurance; full confidence; peremptoriness; as, the man related the facts with positiveness. In matters of opinion, positiveness is not an indication of prudence.Definition 2024
positiveness
positiveness
English
Noun
positiveness (countable and uncountable, plural positivenesses)
- (uncountable) The quality of being positive; positivity. [from 17th c.]
- 1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society 2008, p. 48:
- Nobody knew anything about it although they all spoke with great positiveness and strategical knowledge.
- 1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society 2008, p. 48:
- (countable) The result of being positive