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Definition of Affirmativeness
1. Noun. The agreeable quality of one who assents.
Definition of Affirmativeness
1. Noun. The property of being affirmative. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Affirmativeness
Literary usage of Affirmativeness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Treaty of Washington: Its Negotiation, Execution, and the Discussions by Caleb Cushing (1873)
"... which belongs to him, indeed, as a Swiss, namely, definiteness and affirmativeness
in the matter of international neutrality and morality. ..."
2. The Nineteenth Century (1881)
"There was an affirmativeness, a largeness of soul, in the intervals of these
fights of kites and crows, as the doings of King Alfred show us. ..."
3. Transcripts and Studies by Edward Dowden, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas Carlyle (1888)
"There was an affirmativeness, a largeness of soul, in the intervals of these
fights of kites and crows, as the doings of King Alfred show us. ..."
4. Handbook of the History of Philosophy by Albert Schwegler (1868)
"... all affirmativeness, is only through negation, through exclusion, contrariety;
the notion of antithesis is the soul of the philosophical method. ..."
5. Yale Lectures on Preaching: And Other Writings by Nathaniel Judson Burton, Richard E Burton (1888)
"The most mature affirmative theologian gets his affirmativeness from these very
truths that this young man has already grasped ;—because they are the chief ..."
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