“Mrs. Lyons,” said I as I rose from this long and inconclusive interview, “you are taking a very great responsibility and putting yourself in a very false position by not making an absolutely clean breast of all that you know.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
It was, at least, absolutely effective.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
We’d jammed an absolutely perfect barricade across the bridge.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
It was an absolutely perfect obstacle.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
It was absolutely topping.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
She was sorry, and she knew he would probably not be able to understand, but might some day forgive her, and be grateful to her, and she expected, absolutely unexpectedly, to be married in the spring.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
She hoped he would have a great career, and believed in him absolutely.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
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Dictionary
Merriam-Webster
— in an absolute manner
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Macmillan
— completely: used for emphasis
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Usage
5 uses of ‘absolutely’ in In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway
2 uses of ‘absolutely’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle