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  • Theoretically, there may never be a definitive answer to that question.  (source)
  • Sometimes seeing testimony in black and white makes it more definitive to the jurors.  (source)
  • For while house arrest is a definitive infringement upon one's liberty, presumably it is also intended to be something of a humiliation.  (source)
    definitive = certain
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  • History has never had a definitive version of the book.  (source)
    definitive = authoritative ("the best possible, real versions")
  • Parzival: So you're telling me, definitively, that you are a female?  (source)
    definitively = with certainty
  • At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitively settled—but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved, precluded the idea of risk.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • And trust me. It's definitive.  (source)
    definitive = beyond doubt
  • "A dog." she said definitively, "can only answer to one master."  (source)
    definitively = without doubt
  • We were producing a definitive edition of the poems of Kipling.  (source)
    definitive = best and most respected
  • At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitively settled—  (source)
    definitively = settled in a manner that is definite and final
  • He didn't know what else to say; it was so definitive.†  (source)
  • I've asked my brothers, aunts, uncles and cousins, but I have not been able to definitively establish a timeline, and have therefore relied on my own memories.†  (source)
  • The figures above, compiled by Charles Stenger, PhD, in a comprehensive study of POW statistics for the Veterans Administration, appear to be definitive.†  (source)
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