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affirmance|əˈfɜːməns|
[a. OFr. afermance, -aunce, later affermance, f. afermer: see affirm and -ance.]
1. A confirming.
1531Elyot Governor ii. xiv. (1557) 139 To the affirmaunce whereof they adde to others. 1659Godfrey in Burton Diary (1828) III. 541 Rather an affirmance than an exclusion of the old peerage. 1794Paley Evid. i. ii. i. §7 (1817) 327 Which come merely in affirmance of opinions already formed. 1824H. Campbell Love-lett. Mary Q. of Scots 295 An affirmance or corroboration of all that has been added by his predecessors against Mary. 1885Century Mag. XXIX. 730 The affirmance of the judgment of the court below by the General Term.
2. esp. Of laws, verdicts, etc.: Ratification.
1528Perkins Profit. Bk. v. §377 (1642) 163 That statute is but an affirmance of y⊇ common law in that point. 1657Burton in Diary (1828) II. 19 The Countess's Jury brought in another and a raging verdict..in affirmance of the private verdict they had given. 1798Dallas Rep. ii. 84 Detinue and replevin are actions in affirmance of property. 1808Bentham Sc. Reform 112 The affirmance or reversal of the decree appealed from. 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. I. 505 A majority of the Supreme court seems to have placed upon this ground..its affirmance of that competence of Congress to declare paper money a legal tender for debts.
3. An assertion, a strong declaration.
1494Fabyan i. xxvi. 18 Here now endyth y⊇ lyne or ofspryng of Brute, after y⊇ affermaunce of moste wryters. 1553–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 182/2 One named Joannes de temporibus, which by the affirmance of most of our old histories, liued 361 yeers. 1612Drayton Poly-olbion Notes ii. 34 Of whom Bale dares offer affirmance, that..hee first taught the Britons to make Beere. 1781Cowper Convers. 65 They swear it, till affirmance breeds a doubt. 1819Scott Ivanhoe II. xiv. 258 His lightest affirmance would weigh down the most solemn protestations of the distressed Jewess. |