All 3 Uses of
affirm
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- "But what makes you affirm so confidently and emphatically that it's not he?"†
Chpt 9
- I will not conceal from you that Grigory himself confidently affirms and bears witness that you must have run from that door, though, of course, he did not see you do so with his own eyes, since he only noticed you first some distance away in the garden, running towards the fence.†
Chpt 9
- He affirmed that the Poles had cheated at cards.†
Chpt 9 *
Definition:
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(affirm as in: I affirm the statement) to firmly state that something is true