affirmatively

comparative more affirmatively · superlative most affirmatively

1. In an affirming manner.

   When the Pyrrhonians say, that ataraxy is the chiefe felicitie, which is the immobilitie of judgement, their meaning is not to speake it affirmatively[…].

   1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

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   For as the inference is fair, affirmatively deduced from the action to the organ, that they have eies because they see; so it is also from the organ to the action, that they have eies, therefore some sight designed; if we take the intention of Nature in every species, and except the casuall impediments, or morbosities in individuals.

   1646/50, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica

   Many within our community view childrearing with skepticism or disdain. Affirmatively choosing parenting as a gay man or lesbian is often seen as a retreat from public activism to private life or as a mimicking of heterosexuality.

   1993 October, Nancy D. Polikoff, “Lesbian And Gay Parenting: What's At Stake?”, in Gay Community News, page 14

   Order-maintenance proponents affirmatively promote youth curfews, anti-gang loitering ordinances, and order-maintenance crackdowns as milder alternatives to the theory of incapacitation and increased incarceration.

   2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, Illusion of Order