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affirm English

Meaning affirm meaning

What does affirm mean?
Definitions in simple English

affirm Verb

— If you affirm someone, you agree with something that the person said. She affirmed that she would go when I asked her. — If you affirm someone, you support or encourage them. His parents did everything they could to affirm the his self-confidence.

affirm

— verb (= confirm, support) establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts his story confirmed my doubts The evidence supports the defendant — verb (= swear) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true Before God I swear I am innocent — verb say yes to

Synonyms affirm synonyms

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affirm English » English

assert confirm assure certify aver declare corroborate verify swear attest support insist avow substantiate maintain establish vouch testify state say yes assent acknowledge vow swan ratify pronounce proclaim ensure ascertain approve allege witness validate take note sustain say emphatically prove notice note execute bear witness back up back authenticate announce affirmation witness to warrant vote validation

Topics affirm topics

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Grammar Semantic constituents related to verbs

Yes

Conjugation affirm conjugation

How do you conjugate affirm?

affirm · verb

Examples affirm examples

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Simple sentences

Do you solemnly swear or affirm that you will tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?

Movie subtitles

But I affirm, with intense conviction the truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
Do you swear or affirm that the evidence you shall give in the case now in hearing shall be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you God?
Well listen you don't deny anything or affirm anything.
State, reveal, recount, affirm.
Didn't the Second Vatican council affirm in the clearest terms the liberty of man's conscience and the right of free research?
Do you affirm retrofire?
I the undersigned, Whistle Whistler, I say and affirm that if I had a garden full of trees, I would have left it to my faithful dog to perform his needs.
Given the current situation also, of adolescent psychiatry, I have to affirm this.
I only joined the war to affirm my love for life.
I'll say the very thought of you makes me sick and that you treat me with miserable cruelty. How dare you affirm that, Jane Eyre?
But I affirm that you are.
Affirm Coyote Two. Out.
Yet their own authors faithfully affirm. that the land Salique lies in Germany. between the floods of Sala and of Elbe.
Affirm.
But when the ruthless ambition of a man threatens to engulf the world. it becomes the solemn obligation of all free men. to affirm that the earth belongs not to any one man. but to all men.
In David's words, I affirm my love for thee.
I've used it ten times already. State, reveal, recount, affirm.
I can affirm to His Excellency he had full use of his senses.
Do solemnly swear or affirm I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States from all enemies, foreign and domestic.
To get them to do that, we have to obliterate every aspect of the state's case. Destroy the medical case and their witnesses, so the judges have no possible way to affirm.
I cannot affirm what it should link say something to me.
Everyone else, I want you to affirm building evac.
That's affirm.
That's affirm. We got to get the weight right.
That's affirm, Houston.
They exist, since you affirm it.
I want to affirm the concept of authority in its purest form.
You dare use the authority of the ancients to affirm with impunity the opposite of what's been taught for centuries by men of science around the world.
We have always been, really controlling. as a bulwark, always strongly against the red electorate. than a tiger or a hyena, want to affirm about our city. which bled and gutted, designed in this celestial Gulf. of the same hand of God.
Everyone else, I want you to affirm building evac. Move!
Um, that's affirm.
We'll allow you to affirm if that's satisfactory with you, sir. That would satisfy me.
We can then affirm with documented certainty that the Venetian Republic's penetration of the Mediterranean markets.
His lips are gnawn with poison. Where was that slave that did affirm to us?

News and current affairs

It must affirm not only Afghanistan's territorial integrity, but insure that donor commitments meet the scale of the job and that these promises are kept.
Meanwhile, Square, Paypal, and the start-up company Affirm are already processing a large share of online payments.
Regardless of whether these meetings are productive, unitary EU participation would be of supreme symbolic value: it would affirm a common European stance in international relations and international economic policy.
Yet in other cases of collective action, we willingly affirm collective guilt and a shared duty to make reparations.
Even if an individual decides to affirm a very conservative version of a tradition, this decision may, at least in principle, be revoked at some future time.
They affirm the need for a shift away from the fundamentalist free-market thinking that has dominated poverty-reduction strategies in recent decades toward context-sensitive measures to promote sustainable development and equality.
If they are right, there is no difference between the intellectual discipline of history, founded by the Greeks 2400 years ago to record the past truthfully, and the myths that every culture tells to affirm its self-worth.
Professors do not deserve the title unless they are willing to take the time and make the effort to openly affirm something beyond their data.
To be a professor, it seems to me, one must first have something of importance to oneself that needs affirming, and then one must affirm it.
Others want Europe to affirm its secular nature.
So the EU should not be afraid to affirm both medieval Christianity's community of faith and the modern era's community of reason.
Recently, during the vote on Palestinian representation at the United Nations, the EU called for its members to abstain - an odd way to affirm Europe's commitment to global leadership.
Founded on the notion of separateness, Pakistan has continuously had to affirm its Islamic identity, as well as its opposition to India.
Rather than parse killers' motives, we better affirm our own values by denying that any reasons could ever justify such acts.
The dark-skinned Zakaria, a naturalized American from India with a Ph.D. from Harvard, felt compelled to affirm his loyalty for America twice.
To jump-start progress, all NPT signatories should re-affirm that the Treaty's provisions are mutually reinforcing and must be pursued jointly and faithfully.
NEW YORK - Meetings of G-20 leaders regularly affirm the importance of maintaining and strengthening openness in trade.
Should We Affirm Affirmative Action?
It is widely believed, even among the most Euro-skeptical of observers, that joining the eurozone will affirm these countries' successful transformation into modern market economies.
A DIT framework would affirm the commitment to disinflation and price stability as the euro candidates struggle with pro-inflationary factors.
Doing so would re-affirm American freedom and tolerance, and make the US a stronger and more respected actor abroad.
As Australian and Japanese initiatives fade, attention now turns to ASEAN, which has put in place norms for peace that all major powers affirm.

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