Affirm

Definitions: Affirm

Affirm

Verb

1. Establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts; "his story confirmed my doubts"; "The evidence supports the defendant".

2. To declare or affirm as true: "Before God I swear I am innocent.".

3. Say yes to.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "affirm" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Census

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AFFIRM

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Synonyms: Affirm

Affirmation

Verb: assert; make an assertion; Noun: have one's say; say, affirm, predicate, declare, state; protest, profess.

Assent

Confirm, affirm; ratify, appprove, indorse, countersign; corroborate.

Crosswords: Affirm

Digital Wisdom: Affirm brain online before opening mouth.com. (references; author: unknown)

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Books

• Affirm Your Self Daily Journal (reference)

• Affirm Your Self Day by Day: Seed Thoughts for Loving Yourself (reference)

• Bear Hugs for Self Esteem: Positive Activities That Affirm Confidence and Self Worth (reference)

• Healing Words for the Body, Mind and Spirit: 101 Words to Inspire and Affirm (reference)

• Is the Bible True?: How Modern Debate and Discoveries Affirm the Essence of the Scripture (reference)

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Periodicals

• Adventists Affirm (reference)

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I wish someone would affirm something for a change!.Credit: Library of Congress.

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But I moreover affirm, that all men are naturally in that state, and remain so, till by their own consents they make themselves members of some politic society; and I doubt not in the sequel of this discourse, to make it very clear. (Second Treatise of Government)

Clause 8: Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation:--"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." Section. (reference)

The Allied and Associated Governments affirm and Germany accepts the responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing all the loss and damage to which the Allied and Associated Governments and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence of the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her allies. (reference)

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Where Miss Taylor failed to stimulate, I may safely affirm that Harriet Smith will do nothing.

We affirm, but we doubt.

For my own part, I may truly affirm that I was less concerned than my nurse.

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Civil Liberties

Pakistan

Muslims also must affirm that they accept the unqualified finality of the prophethood of Mohammed and declare that Ahmadis are non-Muslims. (references)

Belarus

Although both Constitutions affirm the equality of religions and denominations before the law, the 1996 Constitution stipulates that cooperation between the State and religious organizations "is regulated with regard for their influence on the formation of spiritual, cultural, and country traditions of the Belarusian people." There is no State religion; however, since his election as the country's president in July 1994, Lukashenka has pursued a policy of favoring the Russian Orthodox Church as the country's chief religion and harassing most other religions. (references)

Economic History

Egypt

While "sweetheart deals" are known to take place, many Egyptian sources affirm that the majority of decisions are openly competitive and straightforward. (references)

Human Rights

Cuba

The Council of State ultimately must affirm capital punishment. (references)

Kyrgyz Republic

Witnesses do not have to present their testimony in court; instead they affirm or deny their statements in the Procurator's files. (references)

Maldives

The President also has authority to affirm judgments of the High Court, to order a second hearing, or to overturn the Court's decision. (references)

Political Economy

Fiji

Chaudhry subsequently took legal action against Qarase; the case was scheduled to be heard in February 2002. The judiciary continued to function, and court decisions during the year helped to affirm the independence of the judiciary. (references)

Azerbaijan

The Government continues to affirm its commitment to development of a market economy, but widespread corruption and patronage reduce competition, and the absence of essential reforms has limited economic development outside the oil and gas sector, which accounts for over 90 percent of the country's export revenues. (references)

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Ending with "affirm": re-affirm.

Afrikaan

verseker (assure, certify, insure, make certain), sertifiseer (assure, certify, make certain), seker maak (assure, certify, make certain), bevestig (acknowledge, assent, confirm, corroborate, say yes, to confirm). (various references)

Albanian

afirmoj (assent, say yes), pohoj (admit, allege, assert, aver, avouch, avow, bear out, claim, confirm, have, maintain, predicate, protest, reassert), konfirmoj (bear out, confirm, corroborate). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قرر (be decided, be determined, be resolved to, choose, conclude, condition, decide, destine, determine, dispose, establish, figure, figure out, fix, make acknowledge, make confess, make up one's mind, plump for, propose, regulate, resolve, rule, set, settle, state), ‏علم مؤكدا, ‏جزم (assert, assertion, assertiveness, asseverate, aver, avouch, dogmatize, vouch), ‏أيد (advocate, champion, countenance, favor, favour, further, go in for, look with favor on, look with favour on, plunk, reason, second, side, side with, stand for, stand up for, stick up, stick up for, subscribe, subserve, support, sustain, underpin, uphold, validate), ‏أكد (accentuate, assert, asseverate, assure, aver, avouch, bear out, check up on, confirm, contend, corroborate, declare, double check, emphasize, predicate, proclaim, profess, protest, punctuate, show, substantiate, swear, underline, underscore, vouch, warrant), ‏ثبت (anchor, assure, aver, belay, belt, bend, bite, bolt, bolt on, brace, cable, catch, chock, confirm, corroborate, countersign, demonstrate, display, endure, establish, evince, fastening, fix, lash, last, pin down, plant, prove, reinforce, secure, set, spike, stabilize, stay, steady, stick, strengthen, substantiate, testify, validate, verify, warrant). (various references)

Bulgarian 

утвърждавам (accredit, consecrate), уверявам (assure, profess, reassure, satisfy, warrant), твърдя (allege, argue, assert, aver, avouch, charge, claim, maintain, predicate, profess), заявявам тържествено (asseverate, testify), заявявам (allege, assert, aver, avow, declare, enounce, maintain, predicate, proclaim, profess, protest, set out, state), потвърждавам (accredit, acknowledge, bear out, certify, clench, corroborate, endorse, homologate, ratify, reaffirm, speak to, substantiate, support, testify, undertake, uphold, validate, verify, vindicate, vouch, warrant), изявявам (advance, express, state). (various references)

Chinese 

肯定 (Affirmation, Affirmative, Affirmed, Affirming, Predicative, sure, surely), 斷言 (assertion). (various references)

Czech

ujistit (assure, reassure, reinsure), prohlásit (declare, enounce, proclaim, pronounce, set out, state, vote), potvrdit (acknowledge, approve, bear out, certify, confirm, corroborate, establish, ratify, testify, to confirm, uphold, validate, verify). (various references)

Danish

forsikre (assure, certify, make certain). (various references)

Dutch

verzekeren (assert, assure, certify, insure, state), toestemmen (accede, agree, approve, assent, consent, say yes), ja zeggen (assent, say yes), bevestigen (acknowledge, affix, assent, attach, confirm, corroborate, determine, fasten, fix, make fast, say yes, secure, to fasten), betuigen (assure, certify, declare, express, state), beamen (approve, assent, say yes). (various references)

Faeroese

vissa um (assure), leggja dýran við (assure). (various references)

Farsi 

تصریح کردن (Reiterate, Restate, Specify, Stipulate), تصدیق کردن (Acknowledge, Admit, Authenticate, Aver, Certify, Concede, Confirm, Establish, Grant, Justify, Recognize, Rubberstamp, Testify), اثبات کردن (Assert, Aver, Corroborate, Prover), اظهارکردن (Allude, Import, Profess, State, Suggest, Swan), شهادت دادن (Attest, Evidence, Testify, Voucher), بطورقطع گفتن . (various references)

Finnish

myöntää (acknowledge, admit, allow, assent, concede, grant, recognize, say yes). (various references)

French

affirmer. (various references)

Frisian

ferwisje (assure), fersekerje (assure, insure). (various references)

German

behaupten (allege, argue, assert, assure, aver, claim, contend, declare, defend, maintain, make out, predicate, pretend, pronounce, purport, state, to affirm, to argue, to assent, to assert, to bring forward a proof, to claim, to claim kindred with someone, to plea, to pretend, to put up a plea, to suggest), versichern (assure, ensure, indemnify, insure, profess, protest, reassure, to affirm, to assure, to ensure, to insure, to reassure), bestätigen (acknowledge, assure, attest, authenticate, bear out, certify, confirm, confirms, corroborate, countersign, endorse, guarantee, ratify, reaffirm, reassure, recognize, to affirm, to certify, to confirm, to indorse, to ratify, uphold, validate, verify, witness), bejahen (answer in the affirmative, approve of, assent, say yes, to affirm). (various references)

Greek 

βεβαιώνω (assure, certify, substantiate, testify to, witness to). (various references)

Hawaiian

afirmoj (assent, say yes). (various references)

Hebrew 

לקים (attest, conform, fulfill, keep, maintain, sustain), לאשר (approve, asseverate, authorise, bear out, certify, confirm, corroborate, endorse, indorse, maintain, obsignate, sanction, testify, uphold, vouch), ל�"עי�" (attest, aver, bear witness, give evidence, testify, vouch, warn, witness), ל�"צ�"יר (asseverate, certify, declare, predicate, proclaim, state, testify). (various references)

Hungarian

jóváhagy (approbate, approve, assent, confirm, endorse, indorse, o.k., ok, okay, okey, ratify, sanction, to approve, to approve of, to assent, to consent, to endorse, to indorse, to o.k., to ratify, to uphold, to validate, upheld, uphold), erõsít (amplify, assert, confirm, intensify, invigorate, nerve, strengthen), állít (allege, assert, aver, claim, contend, declare, posit, represent, state, submit, to affirm, to allege, to assert, to asseverate, to aver, to claim, to contend, to corral, to line up, to parallel, to pillory, to predicate, to purport, to put in, to put up, to slant, to state, to submit, to suggest, to vow). (various references)

Indonesian

mengesahkan (ratification), mengafirmasikan, menegaskan (assert, confirm). (various references)

Italian

affermare (assent, assert, aver, claim, impose oneself, maintain, make a name for oneself, say, say yes, state, to claim), assicurare (assure, belay, ensure, fasten, fasten oneself, fix, guarantee, indemnify, insure, insure oneself, make sure, register, save, secure, take out an insurance, underwrite). (various references)

Korean 

긍� �하십시�". (various references)

Manx

shickyraghey (affirmation, assure, certify, certifying, convince, ensure, make sure, ratification, ratify, ratifying, secure, verify, vouch), niartaghey (affirmation, brace, building up, cement, confirm, confirmation, consolidate, consolidation, documentation, extend, fortification, fortify, intensify, invigorate, nerve, reinforce, reinforcement, stiffen, strengthen), feerey (verify). (various references)

Norwegian

forsikre (insure), bekrefte (confirm). (various references)

Papiamen

afirmá (assent, say yes), sigurá (assure). (various references)

Pig Latin

affirmay

Portuguese

confirmar (acknowledge, approve, assure, confirm, corroborate, corroboratory, countersign, endorse, firm, grant a pardon, hold true, indorse, ratify, sanction, seal, to confirm, vouch), afirmar (allege, assert, assure, aver, avouch, claim, contend, declare, guarantee, have, lay down, pose, predication, profess, pronounceable, say, undertake, vie). (various references)

Romanian

afirma (allege, assert, aver, avouch, claim, declare, hold, maintain, predicate, purport, remark, say, speak to, state, submit, undertake), zice (call, declare, have, pretend, pronounce, put, read, recite, say, sing, tell, think), susţine (advocate, allege, argue, assert, back, back up, bear, bear up, bolster, buoy, buttress, carry, champion, claim, contend, countenance, defend, encourage, endorse, entertain, Favor, favour, fortify, give countenance to smb., hold, hold up, maintain, pep, promote, prop, reinforce, sanction, second, speed, sponsor, submit, support, underlie, uphold, vindicate), mãrturisi (acknowledge, admit, assert, avouch, avow, confess, confide, declare, unbosom, witness), confirma (acknowledge, bear out, confirm, corroborate, establish, fortify, homologate, justify, receipt, sanction, strengthen, validate, verify, vouch, witness). (various references)

Russian 

утверждать (allege, approve, assert, asserting, asserts, asseverate, aver, avouch, clench, clinch, confirm, contend that, endorsed by, insist, maintain, ratify), подтверждать (acknowledge, acknowledge by, attest, bear out, confirm, corroborate, corroboratory, endorse, indorse, instantiate, prove out, reaffirm, re-affirm, reassert, verify, vouch, warrant, write to acknowledge). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

afirmisati, utvrditi (clinch, consolidate, determine, entrench, establish, fortify, nail, nail down, stipulate), potvrditi (acknowledge, attest, authenticate, bear out, certify, confirm, corroborate, homologate, ratify, reaffirm, sanction, substantiate, validate, verify). (various references)

Spanish

asentir (agree, assent, come round, consent, grant, say yes), asegurar (adjust, anchor, assert, assure, beat up, belay, ensure, fasten, fix, guarantee, insure, latch, make certain, profess, reeve, secure, to underwrite, tread in, underwrite, warrant), afirmar (assert, asseverate, attach, aver, avouch, belay, clamp, contend, declare, fasten, fortify, insure, lay down, predicate, say, tack down, tamp, tamp down, tamp in), ratificar (bind, endorse, indorse, ratify, to witness), jurar (blaspheme, curse, cuss, pledge, swear, vow), confirmar (acknowledge, assent, bear out, confirm, corroborate, prove, say yes, support, sustain, to confirm, uphold, vouch). (various references)

Swedish

försäkra (assure, aver, avouch, avow, ensure, indemnify, insure, re-assure, secure, underwrite), bejaka (answer in the affirmative, assent, assent to, consent, say yes). (various references)

Turkish

söylemek (air, apprise, assert, aver, bade, bid, break, call, confess, couch, deliver, drop, enunciate, give voice to, hazard, impart, name, observe, order, pass, pronounce, remark, report, say, sing, sound, speak, speak of, spill, spit, spit out, state, tell, throw out, utter, voice, word), onaylamak (accept, acknowledge, approve, attest, authorise, authorize, be recognizant of, bear out, certify, confirm, corroborate, countersign, endorse, give countenance to, grant, hear, hold with, homologate, indorse, legitimate, legitimatize, legitimize, lend countenance to, o.k., ok, okay, ratify, recognize, sanction, smile on, stamp, subscribe, sustain, to confirm, uphold, validate, verify, visa, vise, vouch, witness), ileri sürmek (adduce, advance, allege, assert, bring about, broach, come up with, contend, drive on, enunciate, hold forth, interpose, lay, prefer, present, press home, pronounce, propose, propound, publish, put forth, put forward, set forward, set up, throw out, urge, weigh in with), iddia etmek (allege, argue, argue for smth., assert, asseverate, attest, aver, claim, contend, declare oneself, enunciate, press home, profess, protest, purport, put forth, put forward), doğrulamak (attest, avouch, bear out, certify, confirm, correct, corroborate, hold with, homologate, justify, predicate, substantiate, support, sustain, testify, verify, vouch), bildirmek (acquaint, advise, announce, annunciate, communicate, declare, enunciate, give forth, give out, Herald, impart, indicate, inform, intimate, issue, let know, let smb. know, Lodge, notice, notify, offer, pass, proclaim, pronounce, put up, report, say, serve notice, signal, signalize, state, tell, vote), beyan etmek (asseverate, attest, avow, be declaratory of, declare, manifest, predicate, proclaim, return). (various references)

Ukranian 

стверджувати (allow, aver), урочисто заявляти (asseverate), скріпляти підписом, робити заяву, твердити (allege, argue, assert, aver, avouch, claim, depose, predicate, say), підтверджувати (acknowledge, approve, attest, avouch, avow, bear out, carry, certify, confirm, corroborate, endorse, homologate, indorse, justify, reassert, reconfirm, say yes, uphold, verify, vouch). (various references)

Welsh

taeru (contend, insist, maintain, wrangle), sicrhau (assure, confirm, secure), sicr.hau (affix, assure, confirm, secure), haeru (allege, assert, aver, avouch), gwirio (attest, aver, avouch, verify). (various references)

adaia, adaias, adfirmabat, adfirmans, aia, aiebat, aio, aiom, ait, aiunt, autumo, firmare, firmo, haio, iesaias, protestor, protesto, protestor; protesto, retineo, sesai. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "affirm": affirmable, affirmance, affirmances, affirmation, affirmations, affirmative, affirmatively, affirmatives, affirmed, affirmer, affirmers, affirming, affirms. (additional references)

Words ending with "affirm": disaffirm, reaffirm. (additional references)

Words containing "affirm": disaffirmance, disaffirmances, disaffirmed, disaffirming, disaffirms, reaffirmation, reaffirmations, reaffirmed, reaffirming, reaffirms. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Affirm" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: afarm, aferm, affear, affer, afferm, affrine, Af-i, Afif, afirm, fafir, offirm. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: amir, fair, farm, fiar, firm, mair, miff, raff, rami, riff.

-3 letters: aff, aim, air, ami, arf, arm, far, fir, iff, mar, mir, ram, ria, rif, rim.

-4 letters: ai, am, ar, fa, if, ma, mi.

+1 letter: affirms.

+2 letters: affirmed, affirmer, farmwife, reaffirm.

+3 letters: affirmers, affirming, disaffirm, falciform, reaffirms.

+4 letters: affirmable, affirmance, chromaffin, disaffirms, frameshift, ragamuffin, reaffirmed, ruffianism.

+5 letters: affirmances, affirmation, affirmative, disaffirmed, flimflammer, foraminifer, frameshifts, ragamuffins, reaffirming, ruffianisms.

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