Both Uses of
affirm
in
Candide
- In the meantime, it has made marvellous progress among us, especially in those great armies composed of honest well-disciplined hirelings, who decide the destiny of states; for we may safely affirm that when an army of thirty thousand men fights another of an equal number, there are about twenty thousand of them p-x-d on each side.†
Chpt 4
- Candide did not quite agree to that, but he affirmed nothing.†
Chpt 30 *
Definition:
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(affirm as in: I affirm the statement) to firmly state that something is true