By 'affirmation' we mean an
affirmative proposition, by 'denial' a negative.
And the third, simulation, in the
affirmative; when a man industriously and expressly feigns and pretends to be, that he is not.
She made an
affirmative sign of the head, and said, "Yes."
The landlady answered in the
affirmative, saying, "There were a great many very good quality and gentlefolks in it now.
Oh, that some encouraging voice would answer in the
affirmative! My courage and my resolution is firm; but my hopes fluctuate, and my spirits are often depressed.