The Collaborative International Dictionary
Affirmatively \Af*firm"a*tive*ly\, adv. In an affirmative manner; on the affirmative side of a question; in the affirmative; -- opposed to negatively.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from affirmative + -ly (2).
Wiktionary
adv. In an affirming manner.
Usage examples of "affirmatively".
Indian lands was subject to nondiscriminatory gross production and excise taxes, so long as Congress did not affirmatively grant them immunity.
Josefina nodded affirmatively and then contorted her face into the ugliest grimace possible.
In that case the rule applies, non entis nulla sunt praedicata, that is, everything that has been asserted with regard to an object, whether affirmatively or negatively, is wrong, and we cannot therefore arrive apagogically at the knowledge of truth by the refutation of its opposite.
KING EGDRIL with his customary eagerness replied affirmatively to the prince's invitation, and Frenery, with a select group of chefs, equerries, kennelmen, dogs, and servants went to the proposed site in the Fial Valley to prepare suitable, if temporary, quarters.
An object of the senses can be completely determined only when it is compared with all phenomenal predicates, and represented by them either affirmatively or negatively.