different between affirmance vs reaffirmance

English

Either affirm +? -ance or from Old French afermance

affirmance (countable and uncountable, plural affirmances)

(uncountable) The act of affirming, affirmation
(countable, law) A decision upholding the decision of a lower court or agency
- 2021, Harrison Stark and Loren Alikhan, A false choice between state sovereignty and multi-racial democracy, in: SCOTUSblog (Feb 24 2021)
  The District [of Columbia] authored an amicus brief on behalf of 18 states urging affirmance.

From re- +? affirmance, after reaffirm.

reaffirmance (countable and uncountable, plural reaffirmances)

(chiefly law) A second or subsequent affirmance; a reaffirmation. [from 17th c.]
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford 2009, p. 32:
  [B]oth the one and the other were nothing more than a re-affirmance of the still more antient standing law of the kingdom.

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