affirmatives

Synonyms for affirmatives

noun gesture of the head

Word Origin & History

"answering 'yes,'" mid-15c., from use in logic; from Middle French affirmatif (13c.), from Latin affirmativus, from affirmat-, past participle stem of affirmare (see affirm). As a noun from early 15c. Affirmative action "positive or corrective effort by employers to prevent discrimination in hiring or promotion" is attested from 1935 with regard to labor unions; specific racial sense is from 1961; now often used more generally in reference to hiring quotas, etc.

Example Sentences for affirmatives

Now this issue is made up of two affirmatives and no negative.

Courtenay and I bowed our affirmatives with all the grace we could muster.

Now, this issue is made up of two affirmatives, and no negative.

Now, this issue is made up of two affirmatives and no negative.

The bill was passed by a bare quorum, 28 affirmatives out of 52.

The chorus of affirmatives was short one voice—that of Splinters.

Aristotle passes next to Affirmatives, both Universal and Particular.

A chorus of affirmatives from the bandits strengthened Kells's statement.

But really the premisses given are only two affirmatives of the Second Figure.

Affirmatives bind not semper et ad semper, as negatives or prohibitions do.

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