affirmation

affirm | American Dictionary

affirm
verb
us/əˈfɜrm/
to state something is true, or to state your support for an idea, opinion, etc.:
[ T ]Applicants signed a form affirming their citizenship.
[ + that clause ]These stories affirmed that the world is strange.

affirmation

noun[ C/U ]us/ˌæf·ərˈmeɪ·ʃən/
[ U ]We’re looking for affirmation of the city’s goal.

Examples of affirm

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They too imparted female qualities to the kingship, whilst simultaneously affirming the king's manhood.
After all, a juror at the outset has no basis for either affirming or denying the innocencem of the defendant.
The honour affirmed had changed its meaning, and had a much more restricted constituency.
Far from being mired in self-interest, merchants, these writers affirmed, dedicated themselves to the public good.
Although the spiritual and existential domains were variously conceived by experienced care providers, their significance for both patient and caregiver was affirmed.
In both cases, understanding the implications of the concept in question implies affirming its existence.
The classical tradition affirmed both transcendence and immanence.
Far from affirming continuity, scripture affirms extinction and recreation.
Hence, he has no good reason for affirming that theistic belief is irrational or unreasonable.
By the end of his terrible journey, he embraces the whole 'divine circle' of creation, affirming transcendence rather than mortality.
The home expressed the person's individuality, it affirmed links with the past, and it could also be a shrine to a spouse's memory.
Her husband's death had been a gauge of these qualities, and had either affirmed or remoulded her attitude to each daughter.
The transformation of the refrain is the vehicle through which the lover affirms the value of his love.
Enjoyment and meaning come in affirming that all the diversity reinforces a basic lesson.
Still, it can be confidently affirmed that nonspectral acts of witchcraft provided the one charge that most surely drew the court's attention.
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