Definition of affirmation

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Affirmation (n.) The act of affirming or asserting as true; assertion; -- opposed to negation or denial.

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Disaffirmation :: Disaffirmation (n.) The act of disaffirming; negation; refutation.
Testimony :: Testimony (n.) A solemn declaration or affirmation made for the purpose of establishing or proving some fact.
Transcendent :: Transcendent (a.) Transcending, or reaching beyond, the limits of human knowledge; -- applied to affirmations and speculations concerning what lies beyond the reach of the human intellect..
Affirmation :: Affirmation (n.) The act of affirming or asserting as true; assertion; -- opposed to negation or denial.
Word :: Word (n.) Language considered as implying the faith or authority of the person who utters it; statement; affirmation; declaration; promise.
Yes :: Yes (adv.) Ay; yea; -- a word which expresses affirmation or consent; -- opposed to no.
Affirmation :: Affirmation (n.) That which is asserted; an assertion; a positive statement; an averment; as, an affirmation, by the vender, of title to property sold, or of its quality..
Thesis :: Thesis (n.) An affirmation, or distinction from a supposition or hypothesis..
Predicative :: Predicative (a.) Expressing affirmation or predication; affirming; predicating, as, a predicative term..
Protest :: Protest (v. t.) To call as a witness in affirming or denying, or to prove an affirmation; to appeal to..
Affirm :: Affirm (v. i.) To make a solemn declaration, before an authorized magistrate or tribunal, under the penalties of perjury; to testify by affirmation..
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..
Testimony :: Testimony (n.) Affirmation; declaration; as, these doctrines are supported by the uniform testimony of the fathers; the belief of past facts must depend on the evidence of human testimony, or the testimony of historians..
Perjury :: Perjury (v.) At common law, a willfully false statement in a fact material to the issue, made by a witness under oath in a competent judicial proceeding. By statute the penalties of perjury are imposed on the making of willfully false affirmations..
Averment :: Averment (v. t.) The act of averring, or that which is averred; affirmation; positive assertion..
Enantiosis :: Enantiosis (n.) A figure of speech by which what is to be understood affirmatively is stated negatively, and the contrary; affirmation by contraries..
Affirmation :: Affirmation (n.) A solemn declaration made under the penalties of perjury, by persons who conscientiously decline taking an oath, which declaration is in law equivalent to an oath..
Affirmatory :: Affirmatory (a.) Giving affirmation; assertive; affirmative.
Denial :: Denial (n.) The act of gainsaying, refusing, or disowning; negation; -- the contrary of affirmation..
Affirmative :: Affirmative (n.) A word or phrase expressing affirmation or assent; as, yes, that is so, etc..
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