reaffirmationn.

1753 A. Chalmer Pt. Sequel Hist. Acct. Edinb.'s Duty on Ale 37 Whether you did take the Trouble to..try whether this my general Re-affirmation or Re-assertion of the Truth of the Facts was fully verified and supported by them, I do not know.

1848 Biblical Repertory July 398 Artfully framed to produce the impression, that the six ancient statutes which the Petition of Rights merely repeated and re-affirmed, had not been of binding force before such re-affirmation.

1857 P. Freeman Princ. Div. Service II. 100 The dogmatic re-affirmation of Eucharistic doctrine.

1904 Columbia Law Rev. 4 534 It seems the better opinion that it is the acceptance of such a decision by professional opinion generally and its reaffirmation by the court in later cases which makes it really authoritative.

1951 R. Firth Elements Social Organization vii. 236 The concepts of these people about the future life are thus in a sense a reaffirmation of the kind of structure and of the social values which they know among themselves.

2000 K. E. Goodpaster in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 85/2 If the logics of market forces and commercial law ignore the dignity of the vulnerable, Christianity can offer a faith-based reaffirmation of that dignity.