- 2. Connect, associate, unite, join, annex, graft in or upon, incorporate, bring into close relation, make
resemble.
Affinity, n.
- 1. Relationship (by marriage), propinquity. connection. See kin, consanguinity.
- 2. Resemblance, likeness, relation, correlation, analogy, connection, similarity, similitude, parallelism,
correspondence, parity, sympathy, attraction.
- 3. (Chem.) Attraction.
Affirm, v. a.
- 1. Declare, aver, assert, maintain, asseverate, avouch, vouch, allege, say, profess, protest, pronounce,
predicate, state, depose, testify, bear witness to.
- 2. Confirm, ratify, approve, establish, indorse.
Affirm, v. n. Make solemn declaration, make asseveration, make averment, pledge one’s word. [Distinguished from Swear, make oath, which see.]
Affirmable, a. Predicable.
Affirmation, n.
- 1. Assertion, declaration, asseveration, word, averment, protestation, avowal, allegation, saying, statement,
pronouncement, announcement, predication, testimony, deposition.
- 2. Confirmation, ratification, approval, establishment, indorsement.
- 3. (Law.) Solemn declaration (instead of oath), solemn avowal or averment, legal pledge.
Affirmative, a.
- 1. That affirms, assertory, assertorical, declarative, declaratory, asseverating, avouching.
- 2. Confirmative, confirmatory, ratifying, approving, establishing, indorsing.
- 3. (Alg.) Positive, not negative, additive, not subtractive.