| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.173 | That tends to vice in man, but I affirm | That tends to vice in man, but I affirme |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.43 | Yet their own authors faithfully affirm | Yet their owne Authors faithfully affirme, |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.114 | blush to affirm it. | blush to affirme it. |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.76 | Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaks | Reuenge, affirme, and turne their Halcion beakes |
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| approof | proof, affirmation, attestation |
| aver | provide, furnish, affirm |
| avouch | declare, assert, affirm |
| avouchment | [affirmation] misuse of ‘avouch’ [sense 1] |
| fore-vouched | previously declared, earlier affirmed |
| good as the best | expression of strong affirmation |
| grant | acknowledge, confess, affirm |
| justify | affirm, acknowledge, corroborate |
| pass | confirm, ratify, affirm |
| position | [in logic] affirmation, assertion, hypothesis |
| profess | declare, avow, affirm |
| protest | make protestation, avow, affirm, proclaim |
| protestation | solemn declaration, affirmation |
| protester | declarer of friendship, affirmer of affection |
| saying | promising, affirmation, assertion |
| take | affirm, swear, take an oath |
| word | declaration, affirmation, proclamation |
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Themes and Topics
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| Swearing | ...hich the speaker makes an invocation to affirm something or to make something happen. ...
...ose swearing habits range from princely affirm ations of honour (‘by the honour of my b...
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Words Families
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| Word Family | Word Family Group | Words |
| AFFIRM | BASIC | affirm v, affirmation n, affirmative n |
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