Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for AF-FIRM'A-TIVE
AF-FIRM'A-TIVEAF-FIRM'A-TIVE-LY
AF-FIRM'A-TIVE, n.
That side of a question which affirms or maintains; opposed to negative; as, there were seventy votes in the affirmative, and thirty-five in the negative.
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