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Definition of Affirming
1. affirm [v] - See also: affirm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Affirming
Literary usage of Affirming
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1888)
"IN ERROR to the Supreme Court of the State of Alabama to review a judgment of
that court, affirming a judgment of the Mobile Circuit . ..."
2. Moral Values: A Study of the Principles of Conduct by Walter Goodnow Everett (1918)
"THE WORLD-DENYING AND THE WORLD-Affirming SPIRIT We may here briefly ...
The world-affirming spirit clings bravely to the values it can discover in our ..."
3. Plato, and the Other Companions of Sokrates by George Grote (1888)
"partly indeed upon his own character, but also most materially upon the society
to which he belongs : the impossibility of affirming any thing generally ..."
4. The Art of Speaking: Containing, an Essay, in which are Given Rules for by James Burgh (1804)
"Affirming. given against the defendant. ... person will judge more than suf-
Affirming. a year, which is something less than three ..."
5. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1907)
"Mr. Justice Day delivered the opinion of the court: This is an appeal from the
court of ар- в peals of the District of Columbia, affirming Ja decree of the ..."
6. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1841)
"My second mistake, in affirming that the will is not NO. xxn. moved but by outward
objects, is a mistake of his Anin)ad'v<,r;' own. For I said not, ..."
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