HOW TO PRONOUNCE
affirmation
/æfɝˈmeɪʃn/
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af-er-MAY-shun: place the main beat on MAY.
The double f has one continuous f sound. Let the r-colored vowel lead into the stressed syllable, then soften the final “shun.”
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“The letter offered a welcome affirmation of her work.”
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Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗What does affirmation mean?
noun
- That which is affirmed; a declaration that something is true.
- A solemn pledge (to tell the truth, to bear allegiance, etc.), legally equivalent to an oath, taken by people who are forbidden to take a religious oath (such as Quakers) or otherwise prefer not to do so.
- A form of self-forced meditation or repetition; autosuggestion.
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/æfɝˈmeɪʃn/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
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There had taken place within him a sentimental revelation entirely distinct from legal affirmation, his only standard of measurement hitherto.
And since, moreover, this affirmation is incontestable, it depends, without doubt, upon hidden relations, which ought, if possible, to be determined scientifically.
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This affirmation involves the conception or idea of a triangle, that is, without the idea of a triangle it cannot be conceived.
A persistent affirmation—or denial—was going on in her, like the tapping of the woodpecker in the one tall pine tree across the chasm.
For whensoever any affirmation is false, the two names of which it is composed, put together and made one, signifie nothing at all.