The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reaffirmance \Re`af*firm"ance\ (r[=e]`[a^]f*f[~e]rm"ans), Reaffirmation \Re*af`fir*ma"tion\ (r[=e]*[a^]f`f[~e]r*m[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. A second affirmation.
Wiktionary
n. An act of reaffirming; a second or subsequent affirmation.
WordNet
n. renewed affirmation [syn: reassertion]
Usage examples of "reaffirmation".
The mediation that Descartes invoked in his reaffirmation of dualism is hypostatized by Kant, not in the divinity but nonetheless in a pseudo-ontological critique-in an ordering function of consciousness and an indistinct appetite of the will.
Indeed, this reaffirmation of his enduring life history depended in many ways on the emergence of a new generation of Romantic liberals who defended the legacy of the French Revolution in their publications, plotted for political changes in organizations such as the Carbonari, advocated liberty for every European nationality, and looked for symbolic figures to represent their ideas and their goals.
It suggested a reaffirmation that in fact there existed between House Agamemnides and House Hardchargin (for the murders could have been perpetrated by no other House) a state of direst kramden.