Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who affirms or asserts.
- noun In law, one who makes affirmation instead of taking an oath.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who affirms or asserts.
- noun (Law) One who affirms, instead of taking an oath.
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- noun One who
affirms orasserts . - noun law One who affirms of taking an
oath .
Etymologies
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Examples
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A la lecture de la réponse de Joseph Kabila à New York Times, on se croirait en présence d'un Karel De Gucht, Ministre des affaires étrangères Belge, affirmant qu'il n'a pas trouvé au Congo, autour de Kabila, des hommes politiques dignes de ce nom.
Global Voices in English » D.R. of Congo: Furor Over Kabila’s New York Times Interview 2009
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Munsterus, dum quos fide Christo insertos affirmant, eosdem omni pietatis et honestatis sensu exuunt: quòd scribant filios ab his, non maiore cura, quàm catulos diligi.
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Munsterus, dum quos fide Christo insertos affirmant, eosdem omni pietatis et honestatis sensu exuunt: qu騞 scribant filios ab his, non maiore cura, qu鄊 catulos diligi.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Un troisième ami l'abrégea encore en affirmant que ceux qui avaient besoin de se pourvoir d'un chapeau s'inquiétaient peu de savoir par qui il était fait.
French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann
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Although he then adds, "that some assert", that this may have happened under Decius and Valerian at Chalcis, this statement (ut alii affirmant), adduced even by him as uncertain, is not to be accepted.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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* Electi qui jam decesserunt, laboribus liberi, pace et tranquillitate fruuntur; non quod dormiant, aid oblivione sopiantur, ut fanatici quidam affirmant; sed quod ab omni metu, cruciatu, et tentatione sint exempti, quibus nos ac caeteri omnes electi Dei sumus obnoxii quamdiu: [9374] 1
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* Damnant Anabaptistas, qui improbant Baptismum puerorum et affirmant pueros sine Baptismo: [9954] 1
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Damnant Anabaptistas, qui improbant Baptismum puerorum et affirmant pueros sine Baptismo [14] salvos fieri.
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And hic viuant, amplius non posse peccare affirmant, aut vere resipiscentibus poenitentiae locum denegant. and amend our lyues.
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Itaque manifestissimae vanitatis eos damnamus, qui affirmant sacramenta nihil aliud esse praeterquam nuda signa: sed persuasissimum habemus, per baptismum nos in Christum inseri, Christi justitiae participes fieri, per quam peccata nostra tegantur, propter quam veniam et gratiam impetremus.
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