Definition of Affirm

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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.

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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

Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures.
Jean Piaget

Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?
bell hooks

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

If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
Irving Babbitt

From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.
Edward Thorndike

I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin

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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