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AFFIRMER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does affirmer mean?
• AFFIRMER (noun)
The noun AFFIRMER has 1 sense:
1. someone who claims to speak the truth
Familiarity information: AFFIRMER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who claims to speak the truth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
affirmer; asserter; asseverator; avower; declarer
Context example:
an avower of his own great intelligence
Hypernyms ("affirmer" is a kind of...):
communicator (a person who communicates with others)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "affirmer"):
postulator (someone who assumes or takes something for granted as the basis of an argument)
Derivation:
affirm (to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true)
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