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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
affirm .
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Examples
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She gave me leave; so I entered and saluting her, said, ‘Verily Allah ordereth the lives of all creatures by His commandment and when He decreeth aught, there is no escaping its fulfilment; nor can any soul depart but by leave of Allah, according to the Writ which affirmeth the appointed term.’
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There is no salvation to those that believe not in Christ; that is, say some, since his nativity, and, as divinity affirmeth, before also; which makes me much apprehend the end of those honest worthies and philosophers which died before his incarnation.
Religio Medici 2007
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Macrobius affirmeth it was disused in his days; but most agree, though without authentic record, that it ceased with the Antonini, — most safely to be understood after the reign of those emperors which assumed the name of
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He then that denies any point, can no more be said to doubt of it, than he who affirmeth it with the same degree of assurance.
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But Iosephus affirmeth that it was so named of Medius the sonne of Iapheth.
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In Aegipt as Plato affirmeth, it was neuer sene rain.
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Vpsaliensis affirmeth that he hath felt the Sommer nights in
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The holy Bible (I say) assigneth no locall or bodily situation beneath the earth, or vpon the earth, or in any other place of this world, to that prison of the damned: but it affirmeth that this earth shall perish, and that a new earth, and new heauens shall be created for the habitation of iust and holy men, Reuel.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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But whethersoeuer of these he affirmeth: notwithstanding the yeerely records, and most auncient
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Homer an ancient writer affirmeth that, the world being diuided into Asia, Africa, and Europe is an Iland, which is likewise so reported by Strabo in his erst book of Cosmographie, Pomponius Mela in his third booke, Higinius, Solinus, with others.
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