#535.  Affirmation.—­ N. affirmance, affirmation; statement,
allegation, assertion, predication, declaration, word, averment; confirmation.
     asseveration, adjuration, swearing, oath, affidavit; deposition &c
(record) 551; avouchment; assurance; protest, protestation; profession; acknowledgment &c. (assent) 488; legal pledge, pronouncement; solemn averment, solemn avowal, solemn declaration.
     remark, observation; position &c. (proposition) 514, saying, dictum,
sentence, ipse dixit[Lat].
     emphasis; weight; dogmatism &c. (certainty) 474; dogmatics &c 887. 
     V. assert; make an assertion &c n.; have one’s say; say, affirm,
predicate, declare, state; protest, profess.
     put forth, put forward; advance, allege, propose, propound, enunciate,
broach, set forth, hold out, maintain, contend, pronounce, pretend.
     depose, depone, aver, avow, avouch, asseverate, swear; make oath, take
one’s oath; make an affidavit, swear an affidavit, put in an affidavit; take one’s Bible oath, kiss the book, vow, vitam impendere vero[Lat]; swear till one is black in the face, swear till one is blue in the face, swear till all’s blue; be sworn, call Heaven to witness; vouch, warrant, certify, assure, swear by bell book and candle.
     swear by &c (believe) 484; insist upon, take one’s stand upon;
emphasize, lay stress on; assert roundly, assert positively; lay down, lay down the law; raise one’s voice, dogmatize, have the last word; rap out; repeat; reassert, reaffirm.
     announce &c (information) 527; acknowledge &c (assent) 488; attest &c
(evidence) 467; adjure &c (put to one’s oath) 768. 
     Adj. asserting &c.v.; declaratory, predicatory[obs3],
pronunciative[obs3], affirmative, soi-disant[Fr]; positive; certain &c 474; express, explicit &c (patent) 525; absolute, emphatic, flat, broad, round, pointed, marked, distinct, decided, confident, trenchant, dogmatic, definitive, formal, solemn, categorical, peremptory; unretracted[obs3]; predicable. 
     Adv. affirmatively &c adj.; in the affirmative.
     with emphasis, ex-cathedra, without fear of contradiction.
     as God is my witness, I must say, indeed, i’ faith, let me tell you,
why, give me leave to say, marry, you may be sure, I’d have you to know; upon my word, upon my honor; by my troth, egad, I assure you; by jingo, by Jove, by George, &c.; troth, seriously, sadly; in sadness, in sober sadness, in truth, in earnest; of a truth, truly, perdy[obs3], in all conscience, upon oath; be assured &c (belief) 484; yes &c (assent) 488; I’ll warrant, I’ll warrant you, I’ll engage, I’ll answer for it, I’ll be bound, I’ll venture to say, I’ll take my oath; in fact, forsooth, joking apart; so help me God; not to mince the matter. 
     Phr. quoth he; dixi[Lat].