Definition for YES

YES, adv. [Sax. gise.]

A word which expresses affirmation or consent; opposed to no; as, are you married, madam? yes. It is used like yea, to enforce by repetition or addition, something which precedes. You have done all this; yes, you have done more. Yes, you despise the man to books confin'd. – Pope.

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