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Definition of Affirm

Affirm to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appellate court for review. To assert positively; to tell with confidence; to aver; to maintain as true; -- opposed to deny. To declare, as a fact, solemnly, under judicial sanction. See Affirmation, 4. To declare or assert positively. To make a solemn declaration, before an authorized magistrate or tribunal, under the penalties of perjury; to testify by affirmation. Related Definitions: Affirmation, An, Appellate, As, Assert, Authorized, Aver, Before, Brought, By, Confidence, Confirm, Court, Declaration, Declare, Decree, Deny, Fact, For, Judgment, Judicial, Magistrate, Maintain, Make, Of, Opposed, Or, Order, Penalties, Perjury, Positively, Review, Sanction, See, Solemn, Solemnly, Tell, Testify, The, To, Tribunal, True, Under, With

Affirm Quotations Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago. Barack Obama Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character. George W. Bush In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny. John Stuart Mill We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective. Irving Babbitt For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply ourselves to the extent that the grace of the Lord permits to inquiry into and investigation of the consensus of the true and purer antiquity. Martin Chemnitz

Affirm Translations affirm in Latin is protestor; protesto affirm in Norwegian is bekrefte, forsikre

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