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AFFIRMANCE

Definitions: AFFIRMANCE

AFFIRMANCE

Noun

1. A strong declaration; affirmation.

2. Confirmation; ratification; confirmation of a voidable act.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "AFFIRMANCE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references)

Etymology: Affirmance \Af*firm"ance\, noun. [Compare to Old French afermance.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms within Context: AFFIRMANCE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Affirmation

Noun: affirmance, affirmation; statement, allegation, assertion, predication, declaration, word, averment; confirmation.

Assent

Noun: assent, assentment; acquiescence, admission; nod; accord, concord, concordance; agreement; affirmance, affirmation; recognition, acknowledgment, avowal; confession of faith.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translations: AFFIRMANCE

Language Translations for "AFFIRMANCE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Russian 

  

утверждение (affirmation, allegation, assertion, asseveration, averment, claim, lament, maintenance, predicate, predication, proposition, ratification, testimony). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: AFFIRMANCE

Derivations

Words beginning with "AFFIRMANCE": affirmances. (additional references)

Words ending with "AFFIRMANCE": disaffirmance. (additional references)

Words containing "AFFIRMANCE": disaffirmances. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "AFFIRMANCE"

Words rhyming with "AFFIRMANCE" (pronounced 'Af*firm"ance'): Abearance, Abeyance, Abidance, Abodance, Acceptance, Accordance, Achievance, Acquaintance, Admirance, Aggrievance, Aidance, Allegeance, Allurance, Annoyance, Appearance, Appendance, Appliance, Approvance, Arrivance, Assistance, Attendance, Avengeance, Avoidance, Avowance, Boastance, Buoyance, Chievance, Clairvoyance, Clearance, Coinsurance, Compliance, Comportance, Concordance, Conductance, Confirmance, Conformance, Connivance, Contrivance, Conveyance, Defailance, Defiance, Demeanance, Deniance, Desistance, Disacquaintance, Disaffirmance, Disagreeance, Disallowance, Disappearance, Disavowance, Discernance, Discompliance, Displeasance, Dispurveyance, Disturbance, Doubtance, Durance, Endurance, Entreatance, Failance, forbearance, grievance, guidance, Impartance, impedance, Inacquaintance, Incompliance, Indisturbance, Indurance, Inobservance, Inquirance, INSURANCE, Intreatance, Irrepentance, Irresistance, Manurance, misalliance, Misguidance, Mountance, Noiance, Nonacceptance, Nonacquaintance, Nonappearance, Nonattendance, Noncompliance, Nonobservance, Nonperformance, Nonregardance, Nonresistance, Nonusance, Observance, Outbalance, Perceivance, Performance, Perseverance, Perturbance, Pleasance, Plesance, Pourveyance, Preacquaintance, Preassurance, Pursuance, Purveyance, reactance, Realliance, reappearance, reassurance, Reconveyance, Recordance, reinsurance, Reliance, repentance, Reposance, Representance, Reservance, resistance, Resultance, Revengeance, self-reliance, Sorance, Sortance, Stintance, Supportance, Surance, Surceaseance, Surveyance, Tendance, Transportance, Unacquaintance, Unobservance, Unrepentance, Unresistance, Upbuoyance, usance, Vengeance, Voidance, Wieldance, Yieldance. (additional references)

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Anagrams: AFFIRMANCE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-f-f-i-m-n-r"

-2 letters: affiance.

-3 letters: acarine, affaire, anaemic, caffein, carinae, carmine, fancier, fanfare, fireman.

-4 letters: acinar, affair, affine, affirm, airman, airmen, anemia, anemic, arcane, arnica, caiman, camera, carafe, carina, carman, carmen, carnie, cinema, crania, fainer, famine, farcie, farina, fiacre, fiance, firman, fraena, iceman, infare, maffia, maniac, marina, marine, mincer, niffer, raffia, remain.

-5 letters: acari, aecia, afire, aimer, amain, amice, amine, amnia, amnic, anear, anima, anime, areca, areic, arena, cairn, caner, ceria, crane, cream, crime, erica, facer, facia, faena, farce, farci, feria, fermi, fifer, finer, frame, franc, frena, inarm, infer, infra, macer, mafia, mafic, mania, manic, maria, micra, minae, mince, miner, nacre, naira, namer, naric, nicer, ramen, ramie, rance, reman.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-f-f-i-m-n-r"
 

+1 letter: affirmances.

 

+3 letters: disaffirmance.

 

+4 letters: disaffirmances.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: AFFIRMANCE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 46 46 49 52 4D 41 4E 43 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    ..-.    ..-.    ..    .-.    --    .-    -.    -.-.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01000110 01000110 01001001 01010010 01001101 01000001 01001110 01000011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#70 &#70 &#73 &#82 &#77 &#65 &#78 &#67 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0046 0046 0049 0052 004D 0041 004E 0043 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

35404043524735483739

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Derivations
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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