ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Affirmatively

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adverb

Quick meaning: Affirmatively is an adverb meaning In an affirming manner.

Meaning

In an affirming manner.

Example Sentences

When the Pyrrhonians say, that ataraxy is the chiefe felicitie, which is the immobilitie of judgement, their meaning is not to speake it affirmatively[…].
Order-maintenance proponents affirmatively promote youth curfews, anti-gang loitering ordinances, and order-maintenance crackdowns as milder alternatives to the theory of incapacitation and increased incarceration.
Many within our community view childrearing with skepticism or disdain. Affirmatively choosing parenting as a gay man or lesbian is often seen as a retreat from public activism to private life or as a mimicking of heterosexuality.
For as the inference is fair, affirmatively deduced from the action to the organ, that they have eies because they see; so it is also from the organ to the action, that they have eies, therefore some sight designed; if we take the intention of Nature in every species, and except the casuall impediments, or morbosities in individuals.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include yes, positively, expressly, explicitly, specifically, favourably.

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