affirmatory

Example Sentences

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Eliot’s validation of Mead’s inchoate longings for a life beyond Dorset must have worked a kind of affirmatory magic.

From The Guardian • Nov. 16, 2019

Among affirmatory fledglings, Revolution or at least the advance of the masses has easily displaced Love and Death as Poet Millay published a book with explicitly social subject matter.

From Time Magazine Archive

He added an affirmatory nod, and continued to gaze upon me with a kind of irate solemnity, holding his substantial stick between his knees, with his hands clasped upon its head.

From The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Brontë, Anne

Her face turned pale for a moment and her lips trembled, but she spoke an affirmatory word only, and waited.

From In Direst Peril by Murray, David Christie

It is certain, Christophine consulted her Parish Clergyman on the affair; and got from him, as Saupe shows us, an affirmatory or at least permissive response.

From The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works by Carlyle, Thomas