different between agreement vs affirmation
agreement
English
Etymology
From Middle English agrement, agreement, from Old French agrement, agreement.
Morphologically agree +? -ment
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /????i?m?nt/
Noun
agreement (countable and uncountable, plural agreements)
- (countable) An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.
- (uncountable) A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.
- (uncountable, law) A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
- (uncountable, linguistics, grammar) Rules that exist in many languages that force some parts of a sentence to be used or inflected differently depending on certain attributes of other parts.
- Having clarified what we mean by ‘Person? and ‘Number?, we can now return to our earlier observation that a finite I is inflected not only for Tense, but also for Agreement. More particularly, I inflects for Person and Number, and must ‘agree? with its Subject, in the sense that the Person/Number features of I must match those of the Subject.
- (obsolete, chiefly in the plural) An agreeable quality.
- 1650, John Donne, "Elegie XVII":
- Her nymph-like features such agreements have / That I could venture with her to the grave [...].
- 1650, John Donne, "Elegie XVII":
Synonyms
- (An understanding to follow a course of conduct): concord, convention, covenant, meeting of the minds, pact, treaty; See also Thesaurus:pact
- (A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion): congeniality, concurrence, harmony, accord; See also Thesaurus:agreement
- (A legally binding contract): settlement
- (linguistics, grammar): concord, concordance
- (An agreeable quality): amenity, pleasantness, niceness
Coordinate terms
- (linguistics, grammar): rection
Hyponyms
- (An understanding to follow a course of conduct): conspiracy
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
- consent, approval
See also
- consensus
- agreement on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English agreement.
Noun
agreement m (invariable)
- agreement (pact, accord)
Anagrams
- magnerete
- mangerete
Middle English
Noun
agreement
- Alternative form of agrement
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affirmation
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)
- That which is affirmed; a declaration that something is true.
- (law) The solemn declaration made by Quakers and others incapable of taking an oath.
- 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)
- 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)
- affirmation
Further reading
- “affirmation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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