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Definition of Affirmers
1. affirmer [n] - See also: affirmer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Affirmers
Literary usage of Affirmers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Philosophy of Language; Or, Language as an Exact Science: Subjectively by David Henry Cruttenden (1870)
"Predicates or affirmers. LIT. DBF. The word, predicate,1 means that which tells
about ... affirmers."
2. pennsylvania archives by Pennsylvania State Library, Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth (1876)
"NB—There were no affirmers at this Court. Certified by WILLIAM ALLEN, Esquire,
Chief Justice, £ca. The foregoing is a true and perfect List taken from the ..."
3. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"... logic compels you to this; compels you to look up, not down ; to rank yourself
with the affirmers, not with the deniers ; with the builders, ..."
4. Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind by Thomas Brown (1824)
"... who conceive, that light has no effect in vision, are perfectly willing to
admit that light exists, or rather, are strenuous affirmers of its existence, ..."
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