Concept cluster: Tasks > Asserting or confirming
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The act of accruing.
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(obsolete): acquirement
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(transitive, obsolete) To confirm; to assure.
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Obsolete spelling of affirm [To agree, verify or concur; to answer positively.]
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Obsolete spelling of answer [(transitive, intransitive) To make a reply or response to.]
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(transitive, historical) To summon (someone) to defend their honour in a duel, or their innocence in a trial by combat; to challenge.
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(chiefly formal, in law, logic, etc.) Used in numerous Latin phrases (and occasionally alone) in the sense of “appeal” or “argument”.
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(nonstandard, with to) To believe in or agree with; subscribe.
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To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.
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(transitive) To assert earnestly, seriously, and confidently
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(transitive, intransitive) To assert the truth of (something); to affirm (something) with confidence; to declare (something) in a positive manner.
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To declare freely and openly; to assert.
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(transitive) To declare openly and boldly, as something believed to be right; to own, acknowledge or confess frankly.
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An open declaration of affirmation or admission of knowledge.
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(transitive) To corroborate, prove, or confirm; to demonstrate; to provide evidence for.
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(idiomatic) to compile evidence that supports a charge against someone.
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A qualification or exemption.
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(law) A charge of misconduct brought in a legal proceeding.
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(intransitive) To provide with a creed.
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(intransitive, law) To testify, especially in the form of a deposition.
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To testify; to bear witness; to claim; to assert; to affirm.
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Obsolete form of endorse. [To express support or approval, especially officially or publicly.]
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To express support or approval, especially officially or publicly.
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(transitive, theology) To ascribe (sin or righteousness) to someone by substitution.
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To prove; to ratify; to confirm.
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(Internet, transitive) To show support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet by marking it with a vote.
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Someone who presents something to another for acceptance or rejection.
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Obsolete spelling of proof [(countable) An effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.]
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(obsolete) proof; trial
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(transitive) To declare one's adherence to (a religion, deity, principle etc.).
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(transitive, cooking) To test the activeness of yeast.
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(transitive) To affirm (something).
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simple past tense of proove
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(intransitive) To demonstrate or establish one's own worth.
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(US, military) A request made to the authority to reconsider its decision or action. It is normally sent through official channels, i.e. through the chain of command.
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A formal application by one officer to another for things needed in the public service.
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(obsolete, transitive) To attest (a document) legally, and date it.
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To affirm; to express with conviction.
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(transitive, rare) To recommend the opposite or negation of.
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(transitive, law) To affirm something formally, under oath.
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(transitive) To justify by providing evidence.
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(archaic) Synonym of vouchsafe (“to condescendingly or graciously give or grant (something)”)
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(idiomatic) To affirm the truth or reliability of.
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One who vouchsafes.
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The act of one who vouchsafes something.
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(obsolete) To warrant.

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