affirm
/əˈfɝm/ verb C1- To agree, verify or concur; to answer positively. · She affirmed that she would go when I asked her.
- To assert positively; to tell with confidence; to aver; to maintain as true.
- To support or encourage. · gender-affirming; trans-affirming· They did everything they could to affirm the children's self-confidence.
- To make firm; to confirm, or ratify; especially (law) to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appellate court for review.
- To state under a solemn promise to tell the truth which is considered legally equivalent to an oath, especially of those who have religious or other moral objections to swearing oaths; also solemnly affirm.
Plural affirm · He/she/it affirms · Past affirmed · Past participle affirmed · -ing form affirming
Verb forms
- Base form
- affirm
- He/she/it
- affirms
- Past
- affirmed
- Past participle
- affirmed
- -ing form
- affirming
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I on the contrary affirm that I am still blind; for when I lost the use of my eyes, I saw in my house various chattels and valuable goods: but now, though he swears I am cured of my blindness, I am not able to see a single thing in it.”
“I should not like to affirm upon oath that I have not.
“I say, I believe such is the case, I do not affirm it; besides, liberty of conscience is established in France.”
Do you insist on this retractation so far as to kill me if I do not make it, although I have repeated more than once, and affirmed on my honor, that I was ignorant of the thing with which you charge me, and although I still declare that it is impossible for anyone but you to recognize the Count of Morcerf under the name of Fernand?”
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