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What does affirm mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word affirm? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To agree, verify or concur; to answer positively.
  2. To assert positively; to tell with confidence; to aver; to maintain as true.
  3. To support or encourage.
  4. To make firm; to confirm, or ratify; especially (law) to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appellate court for review.
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If we are to have one voice as an industry, we must regularly convene to affirm our existence and work together to fulfill our mission.
They benefited from the Toleration Act of 1689 and in 1696 were allowed to affirm rather than take an oath.
Nevertheless, the department continues to affirm its commitment to public safety.
Labor that does not affirm humans and, instead, reduces them to objects for manipulation, is a form of oppression.
Willinsky notes that citations are often used for one's own purposes, to support or affirm a particular idea.
They are quoted because they support and affirm conventional hopes for life after death.

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