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affirmative
  1. Yes; an answer that shows agreement or acceptance.
  2. (grammar) An answer that shows agreement or acceptance.
  3. (obsolete) An assertion.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “It's a tough question, but I would incline towards the affirmative.”
affirmation
  1. That which is affirmed; a declaration that something is true.
  2. A form of self-forced meditation or repetition; autosuggestion.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “People often express a desire to be led deductively, by a chain of reasoning, to the full and complete affirmation of the truth.”
      “The executor shall make a special affidavit or affirmation of the facts and circumstances of the case.”
      “In their political and personalised affirmation of Aboriginality, they challenge and detach themselves from the European historical narrative.”
affirmance
  1. (uncountable) The act of affirming, affirmation
  2. (countable, law) A decision upholding the decision of a lower court or agency
  3. Examples:
    1. “It required not the affirmance, and could not be negatived, by the state governments.”
      “He confessed just before the Court of Appeals filed its opinion of affirmance in your case.”
      “The Supreme Court's decision today was a clear affirmance of that judgment.”
affirmant
  1. One who affirms or asserts.
  2. (law) One who affirms of taking an oath.
  3. Examples:
    1. “The claims of the latter must first be satisfied, before the affirmant can be considered as solvent.”
affirmativism
  1. An attitude of affirming something without necessarily providing the proof or the theoretical backing.
affirmativist
  1. Someone who promotes or follows affirmativism.
affirmativeness
  1. The property of being affirmative.
affirmability
  1. The quality of being affirmable.
affirmaunce
  1. Obsolete form of affirmance.
affirmatum
  1. Something that is affirmed.
affirmer
  1. One who affirms.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “As an affirmer, the teacher appeared to support and encourage student contributions to the classroom discourse.”
      “Bloom's emblematic Shakespeare figures are Falstaff and Hamlet, respectively affirmer and negator par excellence.”
      “But if what it overwhelmingly finds is smallness, spiritual squalor, it would seem to be required of the affirmer to intervene and raise the tone of the world.”
affirmativists
  1. plural of affirmativist
affirmations
  1. plural of affirmation
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The creeds of the church are affirmations of faith and not statements of belief.”
      “Magistrates upon appointment take oaths or make affirmations in the same form as Justices of this Court and the members of other federal courts.”
      “Along with your pre-order, you will receive a free Print of one of my affirmations.”
affirmatives
  1. plural of affirmative
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives.”
      “No affirmatives were required, unless they replied in the negative, he knew his orders would be complied with.”
      “An chorus of affirmatives rang into his earpiece, and he nodded in satisfaction.”
affirmata
  1. plural of affirmatum
affirmances
  1. plural of affirmance
affirmants
  1. plural of affirmant
affirmers
  1. plural of affirmer
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “I treasure your friendship because we are steadfast affirmers of the same belief and that makes us profoundly one.”
      “Book now for all of these shows and events and join the life affirmers filling the venues.”
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