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Affirmation

noun

A statement asserting the existence or the truth of something. Synonyms: avouchment, avowal.

The act of affirming or asserting or stating something. Synonyms: assertion, statement.

(religion) a solemn declaration that serves the same purpose as an oath (if an oath is objectionable to the person on religious or ethical grounds).

A judgment by a higher court that the judgment of a lower court was correct and should stand.

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"Affirmation" Quotes from Famous Books

... a partial negation, and infinite existence is the absolute affirmation of the given nature, it follows (solely from Prop. vii.) that every ...

— Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata - Part I: Concerning God • Benedict de Spinoza

... pleasure in it. And when anything meets us which appears likely, our minds are filled with pleasure thoroughly worthy of a man. Both your wise man and ours, then, will inquire into these things; but yours will do so in order to assent, to feel belief, to express affirmation; ours, with such feelings that he will fear to yield rashly to opinion, and will think that he has succeeded admirably if in matters of this kind he has found out anything ...

— The Academic Questions • M. T. Cicero

... neither cosmic nor anthropomorphic symbols, taken alone, could express. More absolute than the Absolute, more personal than the human mind, Brahma therefore exceeds whilst He includes all the concepts of philosophy, all the passionate intuitions of the heart. He is the Great Affirmation, the font of energy, the source of life and love, the unique satisfaction of desire. His creative word is the Om or "Everlasting Yea." The negative philosophy which strips from the Divine Nature all Its attributes and defining ...

— Songs of Kabir • Rabindranath Tagore (trans.)

... wish to affirm, do not use two negative words so that they shall contradict each other. [Footnote: Not infrequently we use two negatives to make an affirmation; as, He is not unjust; No ...

— Higher Lessons in English • Alonzo Reed and Brainerd Kellogg

... to them, and they render them beautifully. It will not, because science is not art, because knowledge is a different thing from beauty. A true statement may be repulsive and degrading; whereas an affirmation of beauty, whether it be true or fancied, is always moving, and if delivered with corresponding grace is inspiring—is a work of art and "a joy for ever." For reason demands that all the eye sees shall be beautiful, ...

— Albert Durer • T. Sturge Moore

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