Definition of affirm

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Affirm (v. i.) To make a solemn declaration, before an authorized magistrate or tribunal, under the penalties of perjury; to testify by affirmation..

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Maintain :: Maintain (v. t.) To affirm; to support or defend by argument.
Predicate :: Predicate (v. t.) That which is affirmed or denied of the subject. In these propositions, Paper is white, Ink is not white, whiteness is the predicate affirmed of paper and denied of ink..
Verb :: Verb (n.) A word which affirms or predicates something of some person or thing; a part of speech expressing being, action, or the suffering of action..
Predicable :: Predicable (a.) Capable of being predicated or affirmed of something; affirmable; attributable.
Asseveration :: Asseveration (n.) The act of asseverating, or that which is asseverated; positive affirmation or assertion; solemn declaration..
Affirmable :: Affirmable (a.) Capable of being affirmed, asserted, or declared; -- followed by of; as, an attribute affirmable of every just man..
Negation :: Negation (adv.) The act of denying; assertion of the nonreality or untruthfulness of anything; declaration that something is not, or has not been, or will not be; denial; -- the opposite of affirmation..
Affirmant :: Affirmant (n.) One who affirms, instead of taking an oath..
Predicant :: Predicant (n.) One who predicates, affirms, or proclaims; specifically, a preaching friar; a Dominican..
Subject :: Subject (a.) That of which anything is affirmed or predicated; the theme of a proposition or discourse; that which is spoken of; as, the nominative case is the subject of the verb..
Affirmed :: Affirmed (imp. & p. p.) of Affir.
Testify :: Testify (v. t.) To affirm or declare under oath or affirmation before a tribunal, in order to prove some fact..
Swear :: Swear (v. i.) To affirm or utter a solemn declaration, with an appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed; to make a promise, threat, or resolve on oath; also, to affirm solemnly by some sacred object, or one regarded as sacred, as the Bible, the Koran, etc..
Proposition :: Proposition (n.) That which is offered or affirmed as the subject of the discourse; anything stated or affirmed for discussion or illustration.
Categorically :: Categorically (adv.) Absolutely; directly; expressly; positively; as, to affirm categorically..
Disaffirmance :: Disaffirmance (n.) Overthrow or annulment by the decision of a superior tribunal; as, disaffirmance of judgment..
Proposition :: Proposition (n.) A complete sentence, or part of a sentence consisting of a subject and predicate united by a copula; a thought expressed or propounded in language; a from of speech in which a predicate is affirmed or denied of a subject; as, snow is white..
Predicability :: Predicability (n.) The quality or state of being predicable, or affirmable of something, or attributed to something..
Protest :: Protest (v. t.) To make a solemn declaration or affirmation of; to proclaim; to display; as, to protest one's loyalty..
Curse :: Curse (v. i.) To utter imprecations or curses; to affirm or deny with imprecations; to swear.
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