1917 November, Fitzhugh Green, “Amusing Fifty Thousand Men: Another Avenue for Government Control”, in J. W. Greenslade, editor, United States Naval Institute Proceedings, volume 43, number 11 (whole number 177), page 2538:
It may be tiresome, but calculate this celluloid Klondike: Any old reels will do, comedies, tragedies, weekly reviews (dating back to the fall of Sumter)—“posalutelyabsatively” anything will do!
1919, Peter Clark MacFarlane, The Exploits of Bilge and Ma, Boston: Little, Brown, & Company, →LCCN, →OL, page 108:
Curfew absitively must not ring!
1919, George Allen England, Keep Off the Grass, Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, →LCCN, →OL, ch. VII, page 94:
His heart being weak, of course they couldn't draft him, but anyhow they just absitively insisted on his going to work.
1920 September, “Style and Stability (advertisement)”, in The Rotarian, volume 17, number 3, page 159:
That is one of the twelve reasons why Charlotte Diners are absotively the best little old dining chairs produced in this Land of the Free—and Prohibition has nothing to do with it.
1925, Octavus Roy Cohen, Bigger and Blacker, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, →LCCN, →OL:
“I is sad; absotively mis'able. What you reckon kind of pitcher they is takin' down there?”
1973 March 11, “Major Fred C. Dobbs”, in M*A*S*H[1], season 1, episode 22:
"Colonel Blake has okayed my transfer."
"You're serious, Frank. You're leaving."
"Absitively."
"Gee, Frank, this place won't seem the same without you. It'll be terrific."
1977, “I Absotively, Posolutely Love You”, in Paul Mitchell, William Bell (music), Comin' Back for More, performed by William Bell:
I absotively, posolutely love ya, baby / I absotively, posolutely love ya, yeah / No bout a-doubt it / I can't live without it
