Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Affirmative; assertive.
- Dependent upon an affirmative principle: as, an affirmatory syllogism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Giving affirmation; assertive; affirmative.
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- adjective Giving
affirmation ;assertive ;affirmative .
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- adjective affirming or giving assent
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Examples
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Sometimes they are approached in terms of affect: there is a painful negative hunger, or a more tender affirmatory yearning, and these modes of will oppose and supplant each other, articulating a dynamic basis to material reality (Ages 170).
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Virtually nothing in fact, save the warm, self-affirmatory glow you get when someone tells you you're right, that some day your beliefs will be vindicated, that however long it takes, reality will win out.
"Why couldn't President Obama have put on more of a show for his British guests?" Ann Althouse 2009
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He added an affirmatory nod, and continued to gaze upon me with a kind of irate solemnity, holding his substantial stick between his knees, with his hands clasped upon its head.
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That it was so was evident from the numerous affirmatory responses.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 Various
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Her face turned pale for a moment and her lips trembled, but she spoke an affirmatory word only, and waited.
In Direst Peril David Christie Murray
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The foreigner made a vivid, surprised, affirmatory gesture.
The Squirrel-Cage Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918
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She hesitated for a second; then, with an affirmatory murmur, accepted the proffered arm.
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Hence, if the people of a Territory want slavery, they will encourage it by passing affirmatory laws, and the necessary police regulations, patrol laws and slave code; if they do not want it they will withhold that legislation, and by withholding it slavery is as dead as if it was prohibited by a constitutional prohibition, especially if, in addition, their legislation is unfriendly, as it would be if they were opposed to it.
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That it was so was evident from the numerous affirmatory responses.
Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes Mystic-Humorous Stories Joseph Lewis French 1897
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-- To this question asked in the former half of 17 (anvayâd iti/k/et) the latter half replies, 'Still it denotes the Self, owing to the affirmatory statement,' i.e. the fact of the highest Self having been affirmed in a previous passage also, viz. II, 1, 'From that Self sprang ether.'
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 George Thibaut 1881
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