Word Finder - affirm

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To agree, verify or concur; to answer positively.

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She affirmed that she would go when I asked her.

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To assert positively; to tell with confidence; to aver; to maintain as true.

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To support or encourage.

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They did everything they could to affirm the children's self-confidence.

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To make firm; to confirm, or ratify; especially to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appellate court for review.

The primitive condition of all intelligence is that the ego shall posit, affirm or be aware of itself.

It means to publicly affirm your belief and trust in God.

Such a rate of change would be quite insensible, and we can affirm that for recent times there is no reason to look for any other factor than contraction; but if we consider the remote past it is a different matter.

In opposition to the Frankish claim, Venice resolved to affirm her dependence on the Eastern empire.

In no single act of affirmation of cause or substance, much less in such a primitive act, do we affirm the universality of their application.

We wish to affirm again the centrality of the learner.

He also therefore, becomes a kafir for failing to affirm the truth of the Qur'an.

We affirm the value of the Anglican Consultative Council, which is a properly synodical body.

Affirm her when she has finished talking or ends a topic.

You see people who know you well and who benefit from your gifts will repeatedly affirm you in them.

Following Newman's example we must affirm the primacy of the love of God.

You have a choice to affirm your allegiance or swear the oath to Almighty God.

Peter's confidence in Christ was unclouded, and this, we may boldly affirm, was pleasing to the heart of Jesus.

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While they affirm deeply conservative and absolutist theological perspectives, they are generally relatively apolitical.

First, we have already shown that both Matthew and the book of Acts affirm the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ.

We affirm the God-given dignity of every person, so we are moved to action by poverty and oppression and famine and disease.

By the salat we affirm the pledge which we have made to Him.

Certainly it is clear from the overall teaching of Paul in his letters that he does not affirm universal salvation.

One can affirm metaethical theological voluntarism while being a moral skeptic; one cannot affirm normative theological voluntarism while being a moral skeptic.

To protect yourself from crimes involving the energy of the Sun, you need to affirm the strength of your own willpower.

The councils of Trent and of the Vatican mark the Two Truths hypothesis as heretical, when they affirm that there is a natural knowledge of God and natural certainty of immortality.

The first doge elected in Rialto was Angelo Particiaco, a Heraclean noble, with a strong bias towards Byzantium, and his reign was signalized by the building of the first church of San Marco, and by the translation of the saint's body from Alexandria, as though to affirm and to symbolize the creation of united Venice.

Further, it may be concluded with reasonable certainty that the passages that affirm a moral government of the world are additions by pious editors who wished to bring the book into harmony with the orthodox thought of the time.

The term "agnostic" was invented by Huxley in 1869 to describe the philosophical and religious attitude of those who hold that we can have scientific or real knowledge of phenomena only, and that so far as what may lie behind phenomena is concerned - God, immortality, &c. - there is no evidence which entitles us either to deny or affirm anything.

The expression is anthropomorphic, no less than the dogma of material creation; but it is an attempt to affirm the unity of the intellectual and the material world.

The universe exists - or, as otherwise stated, the universe is " contingent " - therefore, even without detailed knowledge of different universes, we can affirm that it must be caused, and in its " Great First Cause " we recognize God.'

At least, it would be hard to name any school of theists which was content to affirm that there " happened " to be a God.'

Who can still affirm that all which in this realm appears as striking rests only on deception and error?

This saying appears to imply a settled life in Canaan, but both affirm the warlike significance of Yahweh and the ark.

Doubt, on the other hand, can neither affirm nor deny because the evidence seems equally strong for both.

Worshipping God in the spirit, they affirm that the outward Church and all that is performed in it and concerns it has no importance for them.

This is said also of the villages and districts of Armenia, and Buddhist legends affirm it for India.

Allen, who attempts to " distinguish what he (Edwards) meant to affirm from what he actually teaches."

You can affirm the eternity of the world, for instance, from one point of view, and at the same time deny it from another; or, at different times and in different connexions, you may one day affirm it and another day deny it.

Turning from our knowledge of Spirit to our knowledge of Matter, nearly all that one can affirm or deny about " things external is," according to Locke, not knowledge but venture n or pre- Knowledge sumptive trust.

He explains the possibility of error on the ground that the mind possesses the liberum arbitrium indifferentiae and can always refuse to affirm the truth of a conclusion drawn from premises which are not selfevident.

We welcome everyone and affirm the dignity of each person.

Affirm your commitment through the beauty of moissanite engagement rings.

When David Hume (Dialogues concerning Natural Religion) protests that the universe is a " singular effect " and that we have no right to affirm a cause for it, unless we have experience of the origin of many universes, and can generalize the conclusion, They all have causes - he may be unassailable upon empiricist grounds.

No matter what you end up buying for Easter this year, your daughter will feel like a million dollars if you affirm how beautiful she looks in her dress on this special day.

College courses on human sexuality include materials and discussion of masturbation, and many parenting manuals deal with ways to affirm a child's self-pleasing habits rather than degrading or punishing the child.

Parents can affirm feelings while stressing that all feelings cannot be acted upon.

Teenagers with strong Christian values and connections to their church may participate in purity ceremonies to affirm their commitment to abstinence, and a ring is often given to them as a physical symbol of that promise.

These preliminary Western research results are helpful, as they affirm that everybody can benefit in some way from the positive attributes of moving the body daily and seeking a state of relaxation.

To maintain or affirm the right of any person to the crown, contrary to the provisions of the act, is high treason by an act of 1707.

In logic, ignorance is that state of mind which for want of evidence is equally unable to affirm or deny one thing or another.

They equally affirm that the so-called representative image is the sole reality, and discard as unthinkable the unperceiving material cause of the philosophers.

It is this unity of apperception which enables us to combine the data of more than one sense, to affirm reality, unreality, identity, difference, unity, plurality and so forth, as also the good, the beautiful and their contraries.

Protestants, with the exception of a small minority in the Anglican communion, unanimously reject the doctrine of purgatory, and affirm that "the souls of believers are at their death made perfect in holiness and do immediately pass into glory."