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Definition of Affirmable
1. Adjective. Capable of being affirmed or asserted. "A quality affirmable of every member of the family"
Definition of Affirmable
1. a. Capable of being affirmed, asserted, or declared; -- followed by of; as, an attribute affirmable of every just man.
Definition of Affirmable
1. Adjective. Able to be affirmed. ¹
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Definition of Affirmable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Affirmable
Literary usage of Affirmable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society by Aristotelian Society (Great Britain) (1891)
"If we call Doubt the Non-affirmable —that which we cannot affirm, ... in so far
as it is affirmable ; and reversing this proposition logically, ..."
2. The Works of Orestes A. Brownson by Orestes Augustus Brownson, Henry Francis Brownson (1884)
"... Scriptures represent uniformly Christ as one person, subsistence, or suppositum;
but they also affirm things of him which are affirmable only of God, ..."
3. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"affirmable, (af-fer'-ma-bl) a. Capable of being affirmed. ... In an affirmable
manner. AFFIRMANCE, (af-fer'-manse) ns Confirmation ; declaration. ..."
4. Johannis Wyclif Tractatus de logica by John Wycliffe (1896)
"Granting this, but refusing to admit that these parts are separately affirmable,
he is at once met by the fact that, as they exist, they must be beings, ..."
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