affirmance

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

AFFIRM'ANCE, noun 1. Confirmation; ratification; as, the affirmance of a judgment; a statute in affirmance of common law. 2. Declaration; affirmation. [Little used.]
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