affirmative
/əˈfɝməɾɪv/ adjective C1- pertaining to truth; asserting that something is; affirming · an affirmative answer
- pertaining to any assertion or active confirmation that favors a particular result
- positive · an affirmative vote
- Confirmative; ratifying. · an act affirmative of common law
- Dogmatic.
- Expressing the agreement of the two terms of a proposition.
- positive; not negative
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The old man made a sign in the affirmative.
Stangerson was living there, they at once answered me in the affirmative.
She answered in the affirmative; and, unable to resist the temptation, added, “When you met us there the other day, we had just been forming a new acquaintance.”
The young girl did not speak; but she made an affirmative sign with her head as she lay on her father’s breast.
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