positif
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of positif
from French: positive
Example Sentences
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Mauvaise Nouvelle EBOLA: Le Mali vient d'enregistrer son premier cas positif.
From Time • Oct. 23, 2014
Cette loi consiste en ce que chacune de nos conceptions principales, chaque branche de nos connaissances, passe successivement par trois états théoriques différents; l'état théologique, ou fictif; l'état métaphysique, ou abstrait; l'état scientifique, ou positif.
From Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews by Huxley, Thomas Henry
Cette règle fait désormais partie du droit positif.
From The League of Nations and its Problems Three Lectures by Oppenheim, L. (Lassa)
Mademoiselle, who prided herself on possessing "un esprit positif," and on entertaining a decided preference for dry studies, kept her young cousin to the same as closely as she could.
From Shirley by Brontë, Charlotte
No English lexicon as yet seems to justify the use of this word in one of the senses of the French positif, as when a historian, for instance, speaks of the esprit positif of Bonaparte.
From Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 2: Carlyle by Morley, John
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