affirm
verb (used with object)
to state or assert positively; maintain as true.
am affirming
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present progressiveof affirm (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Mary Schmidt Campbell, president of the college, read the billionaire’s message this way: “You know what you are doing. You do it well. I am affirming that.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 17, 2020
It may, of course, be urged that all I am affirming for women in this far back beginning is but a process of ingenious guessing.
From The Position of Woman in Primitive Society A Study of the Matriarchy by C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine) Hartley
