All 3 Uses of
affirm
in
The Idiot
- The wearer of this cloak was a young fellow, also of about twenty-six or twenty-seven years of age, slightly above the middle height, very fair, with a thin, pointed and very light coloured beard; his eyes were large and blue, and had an intent look about them, yet that heavy expression which some people affirm to be a peculiarity as well as evidence, of an epileptic subject.†
Chpt 1.1
- Well, I affirm that my reader is wrong again, for my convictions have nothing to do with my sentence of death.†
Chpt 3.5
- This circumstance, Keller affirmed, had led him to feel some suspicion from the first.†
Chpt 3.7 *
Definition:
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(affirm as in: I affirm the statement) to firmly state that something is true