Positively

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late Middle English: from Old French positif, -ive or Latin positivus, from posit- ‘placed’, from the verb ponere . The original sense referred to laws as being formally ‘laid down’, which gave rise to the sense ‘explicitly laid down and admitting no question’, hence ‘certain’.


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positive +‎  -ly


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positively (adv.)

mid-15c., "in a definite way, expressly," from positive (adj.) + -ly (2). Meaning "absolutely" is from 1777.