affirm
verb (used with object)
to state or assert positively; maintain as true.
affirmer
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a word derived from
affirm.
Example Sentences
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As to the respective positions of the affirmer and denier in some future time, when truth has attained the power of asserting her reign against prejudice, that is another thing.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 430 Volume 17, New Series, March 27, 1852 by William Chambers
The old city is like the mountain which has withstood the hurts of time, and remains for us, "the grand affirmer of the present tense."
From Humanly Speaking by Samuel McChord Crothers
Ages are thy days, Thou grand affirmer of the present tense, And type of permanence!
From Poems Household Edition by Ralph Waldo Emerson
