Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties
Division (II) Communication of Ideas
Section II. Modes of Communication

535. Affirmation.

   NOUN:AFFIRMATION, affirmance, statement, allegation, assertion, predication, predicate [logic], declaration, word, averment; confirmation.
  ASSEVERATION, adjuration, swearing, oath, affidavit; deposition (record) [See Record]; avouchment, avouch [rare], assurance; protest, protestation; profession; acknowledgment (assent) [See Assent]; legal pledge, pronouncement; solemn -averment, – avowal, – declaration.
  VOTE, voice; ballot, suffrage; vox populi [L.].
  REMARK, observation; position (proposition) [See Supposition]; saying, dictum, sentence, ipse dixit [L.].
  POSITIVENESS, emphasis, peremptoriness; dogmatism (certainty) [See Certainty]; weight.
  DOGMATIST [See Blusterer].
   VERB:ASSERT; make an assertion &c. n.; have one’s say; say, affirm, predicate, declare, state; protest, profess; acknowledge (assent) [See Assent].
  put forth, put forward; advance, allege, propose, propound; announce [See Information]; enunciate, broach, set forth, hold out, maintain, contend, pronounce, pretend.
  DEPOSE, depone, aver, avow, avouch, asseverate, swear, rap [archaic slang], affirm; make -, take one’s- oath; make -, swear -, put in- an affidavit; take one’s Bible oath, kiss the book, vow, vitam impendere vero [L.]; swear till -one is black in the face, – all’s blue [both colloq.]; be sworn, call Heaven to witness; vouch, warrant, certify, assure; swear by bell, book, and candle; attest (evidence) [See Evidence]; adjure &c. (put to one’s oath) [See Promise].
  EMPHASIZE; swear by (believe) [See Belief]; insist upon, take one’s stand upon; lay stress on; assert -roundly, – positively; lay down, – the law; raise one’s voice, dogmatize, have the last word; rap out; repeat; reassert, reaffirm.
   ADJECTIVE:AFFIRMATIVE; asserting &c. v.; declaratory, predicatory, predicative, predicational, pronunciatory, pronunciative, soi-disant [F.]; positive; unmistakable, clear; certain [See Certainty]; express, explicit (patent) [See Manifestation]; absolute, emphatic, flat, broad, round, pointed, marked, distinct, decided, assertive, insistent, confident, trenchant, dogmatic, definitive, formal, solemn, categorical, peremptory; unretracted.
  PREDICABLE, affirmable, attributable.
   ADVERB:AFFIRMATIVELY &c. adj.; in the affirmative.
  with emphasis, ex-cathedra, without fear of contradiction.
  I must say, indeed, i’ faith, let me tell you, why, give me leave to say, marry [archaic], you may be sure, I’d have you know; upon my -word, – honor; by my troth, egad [euphemism], I assure you; by jingo, by Jove, by George &c. [all colloq.]; troth, seriously, sadly [obs.]; in -, in sober- -sadness, – truth, – earnest; of a truth, truly, pardie or perdy [archaic]; in all conscience, upon oath; be assured (belief) [See Belief]; yes (assent) [See Assent]; I’ll -warrant, – warrant you, – engage, – answer for it, – be bound, – venture to say, – take my oath; in fact, forsooth, joking -aside, – apart; in all -soberness, – seriousness; so help me God; not to mince the matter.
   QUOTATIONS:

1. Quoth he.
2. dixi.