Sentence examples for affirmation was from inspiring English sources

The law applied to "the people called Quakers" and anyone else who was already allowed to affirm in a court of law, but atheists were not supposed to affirm in court because the affirmation was made "in the Presence of Almighty God".

To others, asking for legal affirmation was unthinkable.

At least, enough people thought that an affirmation was necessary.

This affirmation was developed in philosophical and mystical terms by both medieval and modern thinkers.

When Robinson's affirmation was announced, twenty bishops, led by Robert Duncan, of Pittsburgh, rose in protest.

Honest debate, in Kennedy's view, was an act of loyalty; mindless affirmation was not.

Individual affirmation is discouraged.

I'm an artist; affirmation is like catnip to me.

But I still go out, because life without affirmation is no life at all.

"Something I need from dad is affirmation, being told I'm beautiful," said Jordyn Wilson, 19, another daughter of Randy and Lisa.

One wonders, though, how reassuring this affirmation is meant to be, given what the authors tell us elsewhere.