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positiveness|ˈpɒzɪtɪvnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being positive.
†1. Reality of existence; actuality, affirmative nature. Obs.
1668Wilkins Real Char. ii. i. §3. 28 Positiveness, Thesis. 1678Norris Coll. Misc. (1699) 302 The Positiveness of Sins of Omission, is in the Habitude of the Will only.
2. Subjective certainty; confidence, assurance; expression of assuredness; dogmatism, obstinacy.
1679Dryden Troilus & Cress. Ep. Ded., He was brave without Vanity, and knowing without Positiveness. 1711Countrey-Man's Let. to Curat 76 Positiveness without Proof is Intolerable. 1809W. Irving Knickerb. i. iv. (1849) 58 Authors who, from the positiveness of their assertions, seem to have been eye-witnesses of the fact. 1885Ranney in Harper's Mag. Mar. 640/1 The function of these..fibres is not yet determined with positiveness.
b. Definiteness, directness, peremptoriness.
1736Carte Ormonde II. 289 If upon the literal positiveness of the King's directions we had immediately transmitted them to the commissioners. |