Word: affirmance
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...Common Law. Biddle suggests "there was but one end, life itself; and life was the getting of all there was out of it, physically, mentally, and in that deeper loneliness of the spirit." "On the whole," Holmes himself wrote, "I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself as against the saints who deny...
...British Partnership. "We affirm our loyalty to the King and our faith in the British partnership. We accept the responsibilities together with the benefits of this partnership...
Whether or not these assertions were true, Gandhi could not publicly affirm or deny: he was locked up in a luxurious jail, the Aga Khan's million-rupee "bungalow" at Poona. But the British threatened use of the whip on rioters, execution of anyone sabotaging trains or communications...
This that I affirm is not the wishful thinking of a moralist. It is an everyday fact. It is a commonplace truth. . . . I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never...
Concluded Diario de Manhā: "It is legitimate that nations like Portugal protest pretensions affecting their dignity and rights of national sovereignty, and affirm aloud before the world their will and right to resist any aggression, no matter where it comes from...