| 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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| aver | provide, furnish, affirm |
| avouch | declare, assert, affirm |
| grant | acknowledge, confess, affirm |
| justify | affirm, acknowledge, corroborate |
| pass | confirm, ratify, affirm |
| profess | declare, avow, affirm |
| protest | make protestation, avow, affirm, proclaim |
| take | affirm, swear, take an oath |
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| affirm | pass |
| affirm | take |
| affirm | avouch |
| affirm | protest |
| affirm | profess |
| affirm | aver |
| affirm | grant |
| affirm | justify |
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Themes and Topics
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| Swearing | ...which the speaker makes an invocation to affirm something or to make something happen i...
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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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