Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To agree, verify or concur; to answer positively. · To assert positively; to tell with confidence; to aver; to maintain as true. · To support or encourage. · To make firm; to confirm, or ratify; especially (law) to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appellate court for review.
Yes; true; correct.
From Middle English affermen, from Old French afermer, affermer, from Latin affirmare, adfirmare (“to present as fixed, aver, affirm”), from ad (“to”) + firmare (“to make firm”), from firmus (“firm”). By surface analysis, af- + firm.
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