Chapter Adumbration to Affirmative of A by Soule's Synonymes

2. Connect, associate, unite, join, annex, graft in or upon, incorporate, bring into close relation, make resemble.

Affinity, n.

1. Relationship (by marriage), propinquity. connection. See kin, consanguinity.

2. Resemblance, likeness, relation, correlation, analogy, connection, similarity, similitude, parallelism, correspondence, parity, sympathy, attraction.

3. (Chem.) Attraction.

Affirm, v. a.

1. Declare, aver, assert, maintain, asseverate, avouch, vouch, allege, say, profess, protest, pronounce, predicate, state, depose, testify, bear witness to.

2. Confirm, ratify, approve, establish, indorse.

Affirm, v. n. Make solemn declaration, make asseveration, make averment, pledge one’s word. [Distinguished from Swear, make oath, which see.]

Affirmable, a. Predicable.

Affirmation, n.

1. Assertion, declaration, asseveration, word, averment, protestation, avowal, allegation, saying, statement, pronouncement, announcement, predication, testimony, deposition.

2. Confirmation, ratification, approval, establishment, indorsement.

3. (Law.) Solemn declaration (instead of oath), solemn avowal or averment, legal pledge.

Affirmative, a.

1. That affirms, assertory, assertorical, declarative, declaratory, asseverating, avouching.

2. Confirmative, confirmatory, ratifying, approving, establishing, indorsing.

3. (Alg.) Positive, not negative, additive, not subtractive.