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Affirmer :: Affirmer (n.) One who affirms.

Reaffirmance :: Reaffirmance (n.) Alt. of Reaffirmatio.

Disaffirmance :: Disaffirmance (n.) The act of disaffirming; denial; negation.

Testify :: Testify (v. i.) To make a solemn declaration under oath or affirmation, for the purpose of establishing, or making proof of, some fact to a court; to give testimony in a cause depending before a tribunal..

Pronounce :: Pronounce (v. t.) To declare or affirm; as, he pronounced the book to be a libel; he pronounced the act to be a fraud..

Assertor :: Assertor (n.) One who asserts or avers; one who maintains or vindicates a claim or a right; an affirmer, supporter, or vindicator; a defender; an asserter..

Affirmance :: Affirmance (n.) Confirmation; ratification; confirmation of a voidable act.

Affirmation :: Affirmation (n.) Confirmation of anything established; ratification; as, the affirmation of a law..

Negation :: Negation (adv.) The act of denying; assertion of the nonreality or untruthfulness of anything; declaration that something is not, or has not been, or will not be; denial; -- the opposite of affirmation..

Porism :: Porism (n.) A proposition affirming the possibility of finding such conditions as will render a certain determinate problem indeterminate or capable of innumerable solutions.

Avouch :: Avouch (v. t.) To declare or assert positively and as matter of fact; to affirm openly.

Predicate :: Predicate (v. t.) The word or words in a proposition which express what is affirmed of the subject.

Yes :: Yes (adv.) Ay; yea; -- a word which expresses affirmation or consent; -- opposed to no.

Predicable :: Predicable (a.) Capable of being predicated or affirmed of something; affirmable; attributable.

Passage :: Passage (v. i.) In parliamentary proceedings: (a) The course of a proposition (bill, resolution, etc.) through the several stages of consideration and action; as, during its passage through Congress the bill was amended in both Houses. (b) The advancement of a bill or other proposition from one stage to another by an affirmative vote; esp., the final affirmative action of the body upon a proposition; hence, adoption; enactment; as, the passage of the bill to its third reading was delayed..

Affirm :: Affirm (v. t.) to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appellate court for review..

Affirmative :: Affirmative (a.) Positive; dogmatic.

Universal :: Universal (a.) Forming the whole of a genus; relatively unlimited in extension; affirmed or denied of the whole of a subject; as, a universal proposition; -- opposed to particular; e. g. (universal affirmative) All men are animals; (universal negative) No men are omniscient..

Assertion :: Assertion (n.) The act of asserting, or that which is asserted; positive declaration or averment; affirmation; statement asserted; position advanced..

Maintain :: Maintain (v. t.) To affirm; to support or defend by argument.

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