What is "definitively"

Usage examples of "definitively".

When Andromeda loomed above him, her sun-warmed hair patterned with magical flowers, when she tickled both sets of ribs and kissed his hot belly, do you think the little puppy was anything but definitively flattened with joy?

Philip never confessed it, but he had settled for the bleak comfort of hopelessness the moment the voice of a WMTG newsreader coming from the portable radio on his desk had distracted his attention from an elaborate doodle with the announcement that a third name had been definitively added to that of Shane Auslander and Trey Wilk.

The eminent historian Ronald Radosh is blacklisted from every university in the nation because he wrote the book definitively proving the guilt of executed spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

Till the organization under the constitution ordained by the people of the United States in l787, and which went into operation in 1789, the United States had in reality only a provisional government, and it was not till then that the national government was definitively organized, and the line of demarcation between the General Government and the particular State governments was fixed.

Rome wins a final victory at Actium, and definitively secures the empire of the civilized world to the West.

The birth-related disability that wasn't even definitively diagnosed until Mario was six and had let Orin tattoo his shoulder with the red coil of an immersion heater is called Familial Dysautonomia, a neurological deficit whereby he can't feel physical pain very well.

Though he found sketchy evidence of a diplodocoid sauropod and another much larger sauropod, he was able to identify definitively just one species of plant-eating dinosaur, Aegyptosaurus, not an especially large sauropod and unlikely to have been the sole food source for three species of giant meat eaters (and very possibly more, given additional fragmentary evidence described by Stromer).

In a strange way, Belga felt better for getting so definitively squashed.

The blow was like the decree absolute in a divorce: it meant that her marriage was finally, officially, definitively over, and she had no further responsibility.

Really to give up anything on which we have relied, to give it up definitively, 'for good and all' and forever, signifies one of those radical alterations of character which came under our notice in the lectures on conversion.

It would be many months before the team was able to definitively identify the fish at Happy Fish as a coelacanth, a lobe-finned fish that first emerged in the Devonian Period of the Paleozoic Era, some 400 million years ago, and became extinct not long after the rocks of Bahariya were laid down.

On the other hand, the speed and decisiveness of an invasion over a pure air strategy offer the enormous advantages of minimizing civilian casualties among both Iraqis and our regional allies and providing the closest thing to certainty that Saddam's regime will be ousted quickly and definitively.

Unless she could definitively place Nootka on Coruscant at that time, she couldn't prove Tycho was telling the truth.

He simulates femininity, already becoming a woman in practice by decking his body with "feminine adornments" and devoting himself to "the cultivation of voluptuousness," even as he waits for the interminably delayed miracle that will definitively feminize him.

None of the three super-states could be definitively conquered even by the other two in combination.