Literary notes about affirmed (AI summary)
The term "affirmed" is frequently employed to underscore the certainty or veracity of a statement within a literary context. Authors use it both as a narrative device when characters assert facts or opinions—as when a servant declares an observation with conviction ([1]) or a husband insists on his version of events ([2])—and as a tool for reinforcing historical or philosophical claims, as seen when ancient narratives or scholarly discourses convey established truths ([3], [4]). Its usage often carries a formal, declarative tone that lends authority to the content, whether it involves recounting personal testimony ([5], [6]), reporting witnessed occurrences ([7]), or asserting doctrinal beliefs and historical facts ([8], [9]).
- " "There is somebody at home," affirmed the urchin on the threshold.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne - “You jes’ bet they will,” Bill affirmed.
— from White Fang by Jack London - 3. Others of the company took notice of his being a Galilean; and were seconded by the kinsman of Malchus, who affirmed he had seen him in the garden.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - The theory of the Absolute, in particular, has had to be an article of faith, affirmed dogmatically and exclusively.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James - Linton denied that people ever hated their wives; but Cathy affirmed they did, and, in her wisdom, instanced his own father’s aversion to her aunt.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë - “It would do,” I affirmed with some disdain, “perfectly well.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë - And then, as the by-standers afterwards affirmed, a hissing sound was heard, apparently in Roderick Elliston's breast.
— from Mosses from an old manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne - Nor can it be affirmed with truth, that the advantages of birth and fortune were always separated from the profession of Christianity.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - Bear in mind that the same proposition may be affirmed of anything, which in any attribute necessarily follows from God's absolute nature.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza
