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- Affirmative - a. - Confirmative; ratifying; as, an act affirmative of common law.
- Affirmative - a. - That affirms; asserting that the fact is so; declaratory of what exists; answering "yes" to a question; -- opposed to negative; as, an affirmative answer; an affirmative vote.
- Affirmative - a. - Positive; dogmatic.
- Affirmative - a. - Expressing the agreement of the two terms of a proposition.
- Affirmative - a. - Positive; -- a term applied to quantities which are to be added, and opposed to negative, or such as are to be subtracted.
- Affirmative - n. - That which affirms as opposed to that which denies; an affirmative proposition; that side of question which affirms or maintains the proposition stated; -- opposed to negative; as, there were forty votes in the affirmative, and ten in the negative.
- Affirmative - n. - A word or phrase expressing affirmation or assent; as, yes, that is so, etc.
- Affirmatively - adv. - In an affirmative manner; on the affirmative side of a question; in the affirmative; -- opposed to negatively.
- Content - n. - An expression of assent to a bill or motion; an affirmative vote; also, a member who votes "Content.".
- Affirmative - n. - That which affirms as opposed to that which denies; an affirmative proposition; that side of question which affirms or maintains the proposition stated; -- opposed to negative; as, there were forty votes in the affirmative, and ten in the negative.
- Yea - adv. - Yes; ay; a word expressing assent, or an affirmative, or an affirmative answer to a question, now superseded by yes. See Yes.
- Nor - conj. - A negative connective or particle, introducing the second member or clause of a negative proposition, following neither, or not, in the first member or clause (as or in affirmative propositions follows either). Nor is also used sometimes in the first member for neither, and sometimes the neither is omitted and implied by the use of nor.
- Passage - v. i. - In parliamentary proceedings: (a) The course of a proposition (bill, resolution, etc.) through the several stages of consideration and action; as, during its passage through Congress the bill was amended in both Houses. (b) The advancement of a bill or other proposition from one stage to another by an affirmative vote; esp., the final affirmative action of the body upon a proposition; hence, adoption; enactment; as, the passage of the bill to its third reading was delayed.
- Negative - a. - Not positive; without affirmative statement or demonstration; indirect; consisting in the absence of something; privative; as, a negative argument; a negative morality; negative criticism.
- Affirmative - a. - That affirms; asserting that the fact is so; declaratory of what exists; answering "yes" to a question; -- opposed to negative; as, an affirmative answer; an affirmative vote.
- Doubt - v. i. - To waver in opinion or judgment; to be in uncertainty as to belief respecting anything; to hesitate in belief; to be undecided as to the truth of the negative or the affirmative proposition; to b e undetermined.
- Affirmative - a. - Confirmative; ratifying; as, an act affirmative of common law.
- Preponderate - v. i. - To exceed in weight; hence, to incline or descend, as the scale of a balance; figuratively, to exceed in influence, power, etc.; hence; to incline to one side; as, the affirmative side preponderated.
- Aye - n. - An affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative; as, "To call for the ayes and noes;" "The ayes have it."
- Affirmatively - adv. - In an affirmative manner; on the affirmative side of a question; in the affirmative; -- opposed to negatively.
- Yea - n. - An affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative; as, a vote by yeas and nays.
- Issue - n. - A point in debate or controversy on which the parties take affirmative and negative positions; a presentation of alternatives between which to choose or decide.
- Subcontrary - a. - Denoting the relation of opposition between the particular affirmative and particular negative. Of these both may be true and only one can be false.
- Pro - adv. - For, on, or in behalf of, the affirmative side; -- in contrast with con.
- Con - adv. - Against the affirmative side; in opposition; on the negative side; -- The antithesis of pro, and usually in connection with it. See Pro.
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- G3361 μή - 3361 μή - ΜΉ - - mḗ - may - a primary particle of qualified negation (whereas οὐ expresses an absolute denial); (adverb) not, (conjunction) lest; also (as an interrogative implying a negative answer (whereas οὐ expects an affirmative one)) whether:--any but (that), X forbear, + God forbid, + lack, lest, neither, never, no (X wise in), none, nor, (can-)not, nothing, that not, un(-taken), without. Often used in compounds in substantially the same relations. See also ἐὰν μή, ἵνα μή, οὐ μή, μῆκος, μηκύνω, μήν, μὴ οὐκ. - - greek
- G3766 οὐκοῦν - 3766 οὐκοῦν - ΟὐΚΟῦΝ - - oukoûn - ook-oon' - from οὐ and οὖν; is it not therefore that, i.e. (affirmatively) hence or so:--then. - Adverb - greek