different between affirmation vs asseveration

English

Etymology

From Old French afermacion, from Latin affirmare (“to assert”). Doublet of affirmatio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æf??me??n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

affirmation (countable and uncountable, plural affirmations)

1. That which is affirmed; a declaration that something is true.
2. (law) The solemn declaration made by Quakers and others incapable of taking an oath.
3. A form of self-forced meditation or repetition; autosuggestion.

Synonyms

• assertion

Derived terms

• self-affirmation

Translations

See also

• affirmation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Noun

affirmation c (singular definite affirmationen, plural indefinite affirmationer)

1. affirmation

Declension

Further reading

• “affirmation” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

From Old French afermacion, from Latin affirmare (“to assert”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.fi?.ma.sj??/

Noun

affirmation f (plural affirmations)

1. affirmation

Further reading

• “affirmation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Latin assev?r?ti?, from assev?r?.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /??s?v.???e?.??n/, /æs??v.???e?.??n/

Noun

asseveration (countable and uncountable, plural asseverations)

1. An earnest affirmation; a declaration of support.

   Synonyms: averment, avowal

   • 1697, Daniel Defoe, An Essay upon Projects, London: Thomas Cockerill, “Of Academies,” p. 240,^[1]

     […] no man is believ’d a jot the more for all the Asseverations, Damnings and Swearings he makes:

   • 1779, David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Part 12, p. 146,^[2]

     Custom-house oaths and political oaths are but little regarded even by some who pretend to principles of honesty and religion: and a Quaker’s asseveration is with us justly put upon the same footing with the oath of any other person.

   • 1838, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, London: Richard Bentley, Volume 3, Chapter 51, p. 310,^[3]

     […] on all such occasions Mr. Grimwig plants, fishes, and carpenters with great ardour, doing everything in a very singular and unprecedented manner; but always maintaining, with his favourite asseveration, that his mode is the right one.

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, London: The Bodley Head, 1937, Part 2, p. 385,^[5]

     After this homily which he delivered with much warmth of asseveration Mr Mulligan in a trice put off from his hat a kerchief with which he had shielded it.

Derived terms

• asseverational

Related terms

• assever
• asseverate

Translations