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- adverb in an
affirming manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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“Amen,” the entire congregation responds, affirmingly.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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An affirmation phenomenon (sgrub-pa, affirmingly known phenomenon) is a validly knowable phenomenon that is apprehended in a manner in which an object to be negated (dgag-bya) is not explicitly precluded, cut off, dismissed, or rejected by the sounds that express the phenomenon.
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As millions of people across the country are coming to realise a little more with every passing day, there's nothing quite as life-affirmingly hilarious as having spent shitloads of money on things you can't afford - and consequently being in six figures worth of debt you have no earthly means of ever paying back.
Credit Where It's Due juliette 2009
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As millions of people across the country are coming to realise a little more with every passing day, there's nothing quite as life-affirmingly hilarious as having spent shitloads of money on things you can't afford - and consequently being in six figures worth of debt you have no earthly means of ever paying back.
Archive 2009-02-01 juliette 2009
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We need evangelicals to minister affirmingly to GLBT Christians who seek to be a part of their community.
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They range from the unapologetically avant-garde ( "Foot Under Foot," which opens the session), to the pungent and fractured ( "Skitter In") to the affirmingly lugubrious ( "The Sun at Midnight").
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In other words, their existence cannot be established with a category formulated as an affirmation phenomenon (sgrub-pa, affirmingly known phenomenon), with one that is formulated as a negation phenomenon (dgag-pa, negatingly known phenomenon, nullification), with one that is formulated as both, or with one that is formulated as neither.
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In other words, their existence cannot be established with a category formulated as an affirmation phenomenon (sgrub-pa, affirmingly known phenomenon), with one that is formulated as a negation phenomenon (dgag-pa, negatingly known phenomenon, nullification), with one that is formulated as both, or with one that is formulated as neither.
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Existents include affirmation phenomena (sgrub-pa, affirmingly known phenomenon, affirmation) and negation phenomena (dgag-pa, negatingly known phenomenon, negation, refutation).
Affirmations, Negations, and Denumerable and Nondenumerable Ultimate Phenomena 2006
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They include both affirmation phenomena (sgrub-pa, affirmingly known phenomena), such as an orange, and negation phenomena (dgag-pa, negatingly known phenomena), such as not an orange.
The Appearance and Cognition of Nonexistent Phenomena: Non-Gelug Presentation 2006
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