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adjective

Decisive adj.

Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive. "A decisive, irrevocable doom." "Decisive campaign." "Decisive proof."

Marked by promptness and decision. "A noble instance of this attribute of the decisive character."

Synonyms: Decided; positive; conclusive. See Decided.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... jump into a train and to go and tell his cousin the conclusion he has come to regarding the will of the late Mr. Burnett. As I have said, he is a shy man, and it was some time before I could induce him to take so decisive a step; he wanted to meet Miss Watson in my office, but I succeeded in persuading him. He will go down to you to-morrow by the five o'clock, and I need not impress upon you the necessity that you should use your influence with Miss Watson, and that his reception should ...

— Vain Fortune • George Moore

... won now, my comrades, The struggle decisive and strong; The nation's decided the question For our bold and brave Harrison; May the nation's protection be blest To the workingmen's families and homes; John Bull can decide his own problems And call his ...

— Sixty Years of California Song • Margaret Blake-Alverson

... sanction of authority, from the Captain's gate, the two gentlemen and the King's messenger at the head of the party with their attendants, and the Maid in the midst. "Go: and let what will happen," was the parting salutation of Baudricourt. The gazers outside set up a cry when the decisive moment came, and someone, struck with the feeble force which was all the safeguard she had for her long journey through an agitated country—perhaps a woman in the sudden passion of misgiving which often ...

— Jeanne d'Arc - Her Life And Death • Mrs.(Margaret) Oliphant

... the king, still more to the queen, and that orders were, in consequence, issued to the court members of the House of Commons to devise some means to get rid of it. Indeed, the general circumstances of the times are decisive against the hypothesis of the two reverend historians; nor is it, as far as I know, adopted by any other historians. The probability seems to be, that the motion in the committee had been originally suggested by some ...

— A History of the Early Part of the Reign of James the Second • Charles James Fox

... and his corps d'armee entered Catalonia in the first days of April, and advanced directly, by forced marches, across Arragon. On arriving at Segorbe, the duke learned that the Marechal de Berwick held himself in readiness for a decisive battle; and in his eagerness to arrive in time to take part in the action he sent Albert on at full speed, charging him to tell the marshal that the Duc d'Orleans was coming to his aid with ten thousand men, and to pray that if it did not interfere with his arrangements, ...

— The Conspirators - The Chevalier d'Harmental • Alexandre Dumas (Pere)

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