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affirming

/uh-furm/US // əˈfɜrm //UK // (əˈfɜːm) //

申明,肯定,肯定的,肯定的是

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to state or assert positively; maintain as true: to affirm one's loyalty to one's country; He affirmed that all was well.
    • : to confirm or ratify: The appellate court affirmed the judgment of the lower court.
    • : to assert solemnly: He affirmed his innocence.
    • : to express agreement with or commitment to; uphold; support: to affirm human rights.
    • : to support by giving approval, recognition, or encouragement: She described the unhappy memory of her father, who had neither disciplined nor affirmed her.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : Law. to state something solemnly before a court or magistrate, but without oath.to ratify and accept a voidable transaction. to determine that the action of the lower court shall stand.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbdeclare the truth of something

Examples

  • Then, Saturday morning, after our Politics Report published describing the discrepancy, the Labor Council released a brief statement affirming that its delegates had, indeed, voted to endorse Montgomery Steppe.

  • It is like a prayer, affirming that this is what the cinema can be, no matter how far in our cynicism we may stray.

  • As a scholar whose research focuses on the ethics of communication and as a yoga teacher, I’m interested in how people use rituals and rhetoric to affirm their interconnectedness with one another—and with the world.

  • “I’m sorry, Lyndsay, it’s breast cancer,” affirmed the radiologist.

  • Kipchoge belongs to that rare category of athlete whose dominance seems to affirm a supernatural order.

  • That's how they kept clean, meeting with the mayor one day and affirming no snitching over nonviolence the next.

  • Niebuhr “played by the rules” by affirming American exceptionalism, and writing about American innocence.

  • For the United States, our so-so results are neither depressing nor affirming.

  • Affirming that “science and religion can work together” is, on the surface, good.

  • “Society has already answered the LGBT question with an affirming response,” he says.

  • He sent to heaven for a chapter of the Koran, affirming that his wife was faithful.

  • Before affirming that we live a reasonable life, we must determine what is the doctrine of the life which we regard as reasonable.

  • We are denying its existence in the very act of affirming it.

  • Then these were interpreted, questions were raised in reference to them, and the grounds of affirming or denying were presented.

  • She would knock at my Study door, affirming that some one below would be glad to see me, tho there was none that askd for me.