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  1. definitivelyadverb

    in a definitive manner

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Definitivelyadverb

    Positively; decisively; expresly.

    Etymology: from definitive.

    Definitively thus I answer you:
    Your love deserves my thanks; but my desert,
    Unmeritable, shuns your high request. William Shakespeare, Rich. III.

    That Metheusalah was the longest lived, of all the children of Adam, we need not grant; nor is it definitively set down by Moses. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours, b. vi. c. 6.

    Bellarmine saith, because we think that the body of Christ may be in many places at once, locally and visibly; therefore we say and hold, that the same body may be circumscriptively and definitively in more places at once. Joseph Hall.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Definitivelyadverb

    in a definitive manner

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of definitively in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of definitively in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of definitively in a Sentence

  1. Mike Tomlin:

    They handled us and handled us definitively. We understand that. At the same time, we're not paralyzed by that, we accept that we didn't play well enough, we accept that we didn't plan well enough.

  2. Lisa Shalett:

    When we look to 2022, there should be more of a debate about valuations and the direction of inflation, that's great for value stocks and cyclical companies but not for tech once rates start to more definitively move higher,'.

  3. Chris Murphy:

    It definitively points towards investors being more comfortable with the Fed, the Fed has done a really good job telegraphing all their moves, making everyone comfortable with what’s going to happen.

  4. Francis Collins:

    What this study says quite definitively for diabetes is the vast majority of hereditary risk variants are in fact these common ones, and the rare ones, while they pop up here and there, are a much smaller contribution.

  5. Loretta Lynch:

    I can't say definitively right now what led either of these two people to pick up guns and become murderers, we're looking at everything we can find out about these two killers' lives - how they grew up, where they grew up, how they met.

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