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What does affirm mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word affirm? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To agree, verify or concur; to answer positively.
  2. To assert positively; to tell with confidence; to aver; to maintain as true.
  3. To support or encourage.
  4. To make firm; to confirm, or ratify; especially (law) to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appellate court for review.
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Willinsky notes that citations are often used for one's own purposes, to support or affirm a particular idea.
Nevertheless, the department continues to affirm its commitment to public safety.
They are quoted because they support and affirm conventional hopes for life after death.
The writer talked about her struggles to publicly affirm spiritual values in a culture that is deeply cynical.
Labor that does not affirm humans and, instead, reduces them to objects for manipulation, is a form of oppression.
As if to affirm this truth, she rapidly knitted five more rows in one minute flat.

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