Definition of affirmation

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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..

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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..
Predicative :: Predicative (a.) Expressing affirmation or predication; affirming; predicating, as, a predicative term..
Assertion :: Assertion (n.) The act of asserting, or that which is asserted; positive declaration or averment; affirmation; statement asserted; position advanced..
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..
Yes :: Yes (adv.) Ay; yea; -- a word which expresses affirmation or consent; -- opposed to no.
Protestation :: Protestation (n.) Formerly, a declaration in common-law pleading, by which the party interposes an oblique allegation or denial of some fact, protesting that it does or does not exist, and at the same time avoiding a direct affirmation or denial..
Threap :: Threap (n.) An obstinate decision or determination; a pertinacious affirmation.
Protest :: Protest (v. t.) To make a solemn declaration or affirmation of; to proclaim; to display; as, to protest one's loyalty..
Reaffirmation :: Reaffirmation (n.) A second affirmation.
Thesis :: Thesis (n.) An affirmation, or distinction from a supposition or hypothesis..
Denial :: Denial (n.) The act of gainsaying, refusing, or disowning; negation; -- the contrary of affirmation..
Deposition :: Deposition (n.) The act of laying down one's testimony in writing; also, testimony laid or taken down in writing, under oath or affirmation, before some competent officer, and in reply to interrogatories and cross-interrogatories..
Testimony :: Testimony (n.) A solemn declaration or affirmation made for the purpose of establishing or proving some fact.
Testify :: Testify (v. t.) To affirm or declare under oath or affirmation before a tribunal, in order to prove some fact..
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.) 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..
Affirmation :: Affirmation (n.) Confirmation of anything established; ratification; as, the affirmation of a law..
Affirm :: Affirm (v. t.) To declare, as a fact, solemnly, under judicial sanction. See Affirmation, 4..
Oath :: Oath (n.) A solemn affirmation, connected with a sacred object, or one regarded as sacred, as the temple, the altar, the blood of Abel, the Bible, the Koran, etc..
Erotesis :: Erotesis (n.) A figure o/ speech by which a strong affirmation of the contrary, is implied under the form o/ an earnest interrogation, as in the following lines; -.
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