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Definitive   /dɪfˈɪnɪtɪv/   Listen
adjective
Definitive  adj.  
1.
Determinate; positive; final; conclusive; unconditional; express. "A strict and definitive truth." "Some definitive... scheme of reconciliation."
2.
Limiting; determining; as, a definitive word.
3.
Determined; resolved. (Obs.)


noun
Definitive  n.  (Gram.) A word used to define or limit the extent of the signification of a common noun, such as the definite article, and some pronouns. Note: Definitives... are commonly called by grammarians articles.... They are of two kinds, either those properly and strictly so called, or else pronominal articles, such as this, that, any, other, some, all, no, none, etc.





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"Definitive" Quotes from Famous Books



... get that?" muttered George, with a defensive menace half formed in his voice. He faltered. His mood had not yet become definitive. ...
— The Roll-Call • Arnold Bennett
... relationships, these facts become portions of our habitual mental equipment. Any practitioner knows how true this is, and how especially visible during the examination of witnesses, who ignore facts which to us seem, in the nature of the case, important and definitive. In such cases we must first of all not assume that these facts have not oc- curred because the witness has not explained them or has overlooked them; we must proceed as suggested in order to validate the relevant circumstances by means of the witness—i. ...
— Robin Hood • J. Walker McSpadden
... importance for discussion of the relation between insanity and criminalism to know that there are such cases as this where the individual is unquestionably aberrational and yet does not conform in mental symptoms to any one of the definitive "forms of insanity.'' They may be lacking in normal social control and in ability to reason, impulsively inclined to anti-social deeds and therefore social menaces, but, notwithstanding this, ...
— Pathology of Lying, Etc. • William and Mary Healy
... Gorshott for lunch at the clubhouse and a round with Horace Toomer in the afternoon, re-read the poem after tea, decided it was poor, tore it up and got himself down to his little fantasy about Shakespear's Garden for a good two hours before supper. It was a sketch of that fortunate poet (whose definitive immortality is now being assured by an influential committee) walking round his Stratford garden with his daughter, quoting himself copiously with an accuracy and inappropriateness that reflected more credit upon his heart than upon his head, ...
— The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman • H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
... somewhat modified in the definitive edition of 1900; but, for present purposes of illustration, the text of the fourth edition ...
— Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation • Lafcadio Hearn


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