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Definition of Affirmatory
1. Adjective. Affirming or giving assent. "Affirmative votes"
Similar to: Assentient
Also: Favorable, Favourable, Positive
Derivative terms: Affirm, Affirmative, Affirm
Antonyms: Negative
Definition of Affirmatory
1. a. Giving affirmation; assertive; affirmative.
Definition of Affirmatory
1. Adjective. Giving affirmation; assertive; affirmative. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Affirmatory
Literary usage of Affirmatory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States by United States Supreme Court, William Cranch, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard, Jeremiah Sullivan Black (1905)
"... declarations which he had made of a contradictory character, and then the
plaintiff offered to give in evidence others, affirmatory of the first, ..."
2. The Principles of Judicial Proof: As Given by Logic, Psychology, and General by John Henry Wigmore (1913)
"A fact is to be classed as negatory or affirmatory in itself, ... (see Chart),
the defendant may offer an affirmatory fact to prove another fact which is ..."
3. Commentaries on Law: Embracing Chapters on the Nature, the Source, and the by Francis Wharton (1884)
"But the answer is, that police statutes do not create new police offences, but
are simply affirmatory of the common law. A statute, for instance, ..."
4. The Irish Jurist (1859)
"The general rule by which a court ascertains whether the words are directory or
affirmatory is, that negative words in a statute will make it imperative; ..."
5. The New Age, and Concordium Gazette (1845)
"... to all affirmatory views of man's interior life, and are assured that there
is in each phase of it much that will, repay for deep and serious ..."
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