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Definition of Affirmatives
1. affirmative [n] - See also: affirmative
Lexicographical Neighbors of Affirmatives
Literary usage of Affirmatives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Principles of Pleading in Civil Actions: Comprising a by Henry John Stephen (1894)
"Two affirmatives do not make a good issue.—It is a branch of this rule that two
affirmatives do not make a good issue, («) The reason is, that the traverse ..."
2. Hand-book of Common-law Pleading by Benjamin Jonson Shipman (1895)
"It is under the head of ambiguity that the doctrine of negatives and affirmatives
pregnant appears most properly to range itself. ..."
3. Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870)
"The affirmative of affirmatives is love. As much love, so much perception.
As caloric to matter, so is love to mind; so it enlarges, and so it empowers it. ..."
4. The Science of Logic: Or, an Analysis of the Laws of Thought by Asa Mahan (1857)
"Affirmatives. SIGN. . U.—All X is all Z, or X=Z ; A.—All X is some Z, or all X
is Z ; I.—Some X is some Z, or some X is Z ; Y.—Some X is all Z, ..."
5. Common-law Pleading: Its History and Principles : Including Dicey's Rules by Richard Ross Perry, Albert Venn Dicey, Henry John Stephen (1897)
"The doctrine, however, that two affirmatives do not make a good issue, is not
taken so strictly but that the issue will, in some cases, be good, ..."
6. An Introduction to the French Language by Alphonse Naus Van Daell (1893)
"Affirmatives AND NEGATIVES. For negative forms used with verbs, see page 62.
For the negative without verbs the French form is non 'no,' or emphatically non ..."
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