yes

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

YES, adverb A word which expresses affirmation or consent; opposed to no; as, are you married, madam? yes It is used like yea, to enforce by repetition or addition, something which precedes. You have done all this; yes you have done more. YES, you despise the man to books confind.
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