All 5 Uses of
affirm
in
Heart of Darkness
- No; I can't forget him, though I am not prepared to affirm the fellow was exactly worth the life we lost in getting to him.†
Chpt 2
- And the intimate profundity of that look he gave me when he received his hurt remains to this day in my memory—like a claim of distant kinship affirmed in a supreme moment.†
Chpt 2
- 'Your success in Europe is assured in any case,' I affirmed, steadily.†
Chpt 3
- This is the reason why I affirm that Kurtz was a remarkable man.†
Chpt 3 *
- It was an affirmation, a moral victory paid for by innumerable defeats, by abominable terrors, by abominable satisfactions.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(affirm as in: I affirm the statement) to firmly state that something is true