Affirmation

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Confirmation of anything established; ratification; as, the affirmation of a law.

II. Affirmation ·noun The act of affirming or asserting as true; assertion;

— opposed to negation or denial.

III. Affirmation ·noun That which is asserted; an assertion; a positive statement; an averment; as, an affirmation, by the vender, of title to property sold, or of its quality.

IV. Affirmation ·noun A solemn declaration made under the penalties of perjury, by persons who conscientiously decline taking an oath, which declaration is in law equivalent to an Oath.