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affirmation
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Affirmation \Af`fir*ma"tion\, n. [L. affirmatio: cf. F. affirmation.]
Confirmation of anything established; ratification; as, the affirmation of a law.
--Hooker.The act of affirming or asserting as true; assertion; -- opposed to negation or denial.
That which is asserted; an assertion; a positive statement; an averment; as, an affirmation, by the vender, of title to property sold, or of its quality.
(Law) A solemn declaration made under the penalties of perjury, by persons who conscientiously decline taking an oath, which declaration is in law equivalent to an oath.
--Bouvier.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "assertion that something is true," from Old French afermacion (14c.), from Latin affirmationem (nominative affirmatio) "an affirmation, solid assurance," noun of action from past participle stem of affirmare (see affirm). In law, as the Quaker alternative to oath-taking, it is attested from 1690s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 That which is affirmed; a declaration that something is true. 2 A form of self-forced meditation or repetition; autosuggestion.
WordNet
n. a statement asserting the existence or the truth of something [syn: avowal, avouchment]
the act of affirming or asserting or stating something [syn: 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 [ant: reversal]
Wikipedia
Affirmation is the second and final studio album by Australian pop Savage Garden. The album was released on 9 November 1999 by Columbia Records. It won the 2000 ARIA Music Award for Highest Selling Album along it nominated the 2000 ARIA Music Award for Best Group but lost to Killing Heidi's Reflector and Best Pop Album but lost to Kylie Minogue's Spinning Around.
Affirmation, Affirmations or Affirm may refer to:
- Affirmation, a declaration that something is true
- in logic, the union of the subject and predicate of a proposition
- Affirmation in law, a declaration made by and allowed to those who conscientiously object to taking an oath
- Affirmed in law, means that a decision has been reviewed and found valid
- Nietzschean affirmation, a philosophical concept according to which we create meaning and knowledge for ourselves in a nihilistic world
- Affirmation of St. Louis, the founding document of the Continuing Anglican Movement churches
- Affirmations (New Age), the practice of positive thinking in New Age terminology
- Affirmative prayer, a form of prayer that focuses on a positive outcome
- Affirmation (Beverley Knight album)
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Affirmation (Savage Garden album)
- "Affirmation" (song), title track of this album
- Affirm (company), a technology company in San Francisco
- Affirmations (Ferndale, Michigan), a LGBT community center in Ferndale, Michigan
- Affirmations (film), a 1990 short film
- Affirmations (L. Ron Hubbard), a work said to have been written by L. Ron Hubbard
Affirmation is the fourth studio album by British R&B and neo soul singer-songwriter Beverley Knight, released on 28 June 2004 by Parlophone Records.
The album was released on 28 June 2004, to much critical acclaim and is her most personal album to date. The album features three hit singles, "Come As You Are", "Not Too Late for Love" and "Keep This Fire Burning", which all entered the UK Singles Chart top 40.
Affirmation peaked at just outside the UK album chart top ten by one space at number 11. It also peaked at 83 in the Swiss Album Chart.
Affirmation was certified Silver by the BPI on Friday 2 July 2004, less than a week after the album was released. By December 2004, the album had received a Gold certification.
"Affirmation" is a song by Savage Garden, released as the fourth single from their second studio album of the same name.
Usage examples of "affirmation".
Though ambivalent, Kennedy, seeking credibility in Vietnam, was for the moment in favor of increased effort and wanted affirmation rather than information, as his choice of envoys indicates.
Almost every well-intended and enlightened gesture designed to help immigrants in the last three decades - de facto open borders, bilingual education, new state welfare programs, the affirmation of a hyphenated identity, a sweeping revisionism in southwestern American history - has either failed to ensure economic parity or thwarted the processes of assimilation.
That been in a way her own declaration of independence, her bill rights, her affirmation of personhood and of freedom?
Perhaps the identity in substance with differentiation in reason will be defended on the ground that Privation does not point to something present but precisely to an absence, to something absent, to the negation or lack of Real-being: the case would be like that of the affirmation of non-existence, where there is no real predication but simply a denial.
Privation does not point to something present but precisely to an absence, to something absent, to the negation or lack of Real-being: the case would be like that of the affirmation of non-existence, where there is no real predication but simply a denial.
This objection, however, does not present an insuperable obstacle, because the revolutionary past, and the contemporary cooperative productive capacities through which the anthropological characteristics of the multitude are continually transcribed and reformulated, cannot help revealing a telos, a material affirmation of liberation.
And does not such affirmation become impudently absurd when coupled with the other affirmation from the same mouth, that those who did the two things alleged to be inconsistent understood whether they really were inconsistent better than we--better than he who affirms that they are inconsistent?
He must have had some reasons, and perhaps not unplausible ones, for this affirmation, of which all his hearers, as they had the accounts lying before them, were at that time competent judges.
This massive effort at planting was a development that Anne Blenheim understood was fairly new, and of which she heartily approved both esthetically and as an affirmation of life.
Testimony here assumes its broadest connotation as the exemplary affirmation of incontrovertible human and national values.
Whether it comes to the point of rejecting all reality or of affirming nothing but reality, it denies itself each time either by absolute negation or by absolute affirmation.
That there was a deliberate purpose to mislead the public by an affirmation that cruel and unjustifiable experiments were a myth, the creation of imagination, is an hypothesis we must reject.
The inevitable consequence is that we imprison ourselves hopelessly in the affirmation of Kantian relativism.
Breathless, Kerrie lay sheltered beneath Roman, still clinging to him, not wanting this vital connection, this affirmation of life to end.
The prepositional form posits as a condition of language the affirmation of a relation of identity or difference: we can speak only in so far as this relation is possible.