Affirm vs Endorse - What's the difference?
affirm | endorse |
To agree, verify or concur; to answer positively.
To assert positively; to tell with confidence; to aver; to maintain as true.
* Bible, Acts xxv. 19
To support or encourage.
To make firm; to confirm, or ratify; especially (legal) to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appelate court for review.
To support, to back, to give one's approval to, especially officially or by signature.
To write one's signature on the back of a cheque, or other negotiable instrument, when transferring it to a third party, or cashing it.
To give an endorsement.
(heraldiccharge) A diminutive of the pale, usually appearing in pairs on either side of a pale.
English words prefixed with en-
As verbs the difference between affirm and endorse
is that affirm is to agree, verify or concur; to answer positively while endorse is to support, to back, to give one's approval to, especially officially or by signature.As a noun endorse is
a diminutive of the pale, usually appearing in pairs on either side of a pale.affirm
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- She affirmed that she would go when I asked her.
- Jesus, whom Paul affirmed to be alive
- They did everything they could to affirm the children's self-confidence.
