Affirm vs Exclaim - What's the difference?
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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.
(lb) To cry out suddenly, from some strong emotion.
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*:“Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are'' pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling ''à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.”
(obsolete) Exclamation; outcry, clamor.
* 1635 , John Donne, "His parting form her":
Affirm is a related term of exclaim.
As verbs the difference between affirm and exclaim
is that affirm is to agree, verify or concur; to answer positively while exclaim is (lb) to cry out suddenly, from some strong emotion.As a noun exclaim is
(obsolete) exclamation; outcry, clamor.affirm
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Verb
- 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.
Antonyms
* denySee also
* affirmative action * confirmExternal links
* * *exclaim
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Alternative forms
* exclameVerb
(en verb)Synonyms
* See alsoNoun
(en noun)- Oh fortune, thou'rt not worth my least exclame [...].