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affirmable, a.|əˈfɜːməb(ə)l| [f. prec. + -able, as if ad. L. *affirmābilis.] †1. Affirmative, positive. Obs. See affirmably. 2. Capable of being affirmed or asserted. Const. of.
1611Cotgr., Affermable, affirmable, avouchable. 1643Prynne Sov. Power Parl. iii. 116 What is truely affirmable of the one, is of the other too. 1824Coleridge Aids to Refl. (1848) I. 228 The grounds on which the fact of an evil inherent in the will is affirmable. 1846Mill Logic vi. x. §5 (1868) II. 517 This seems to be affirmable of the conclusions arrived at. |