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AFFIRMED
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1978
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Instance hypernyms:
thoroughbred (a racehorse belonging to a breed that originated from a cross between Arabian stallions and English mares)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb affirm
Context examples:
There is an air of truth apparent through the whole; and indeed the author was so distinguished for his veracity, that it became a sort of proverb among his neighbours at Redriff, when any one affirmed a thing, to say, it was as true as if Mr. Gulliver had spoken it.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
"It would do," I affirmed with some disdain, perfectly well.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
"You were insulted," Brissenden affirmed.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The artist himself was at that time busy upon two great designs; the first, to sow land with chaff, wherein he affirmed the true seminal virtue to be contained, as he demonstrated by several experiments, which I was not skilful enough to comprehend.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
But unluckily the Varens, six months before, had given me this filette Adele, who, she affirmed, was my daughter; and perhaps she may be, though I see no proofs of such grim paternity written in her countenance: Pilot is more like me than she.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The first affirmed, “the justest method would be, to lay a certain tax upon vices and folly; and the sum fixed upon every man to be rated, after the fairest manner, by a jury of his neighbours.”
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Marsh End had belonged to the Rivers ever since it was a house: and it was, she affirmed, aboon two hundred year old—for all it looked but a small, humble place, naught to compare wi' Mr. Oliver's grand hall down i' Morton Vale.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
He approved of the tradition mentioned by the honourable member who spoke before, and affirmed, that the two Yahoos said to be seen first among them, had been driven thither over the sea; that coming to land, and being forsaken by their companions, they retired to the mountains, and degenerating by degrees, became in process of time much more savage than those of their own species in the country whence these two originals came.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
These affirmed that it was pleasure enough to have the privilege of again looking on Mr. Rochester, whether he looked on me or not; and they added—Hasten! hasten! be with him while you may: but a few more days or weeks, at most, and you are parted from him for ever!
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I could not forget your conduct to me, Jane—the fury with which you once turned on me; the tone in which you declared you abhorred me the worst of anybody in the world; the unchildlike look and voice with which you affirmed that the very thought of me made you sick, and asserted that I had treated you with miserable cruelty.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
