bell notificationshomepageloginedit profileclubsdmBox

Search word meanings:

Word Meanings - DISAFFIRM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To refuse to confirm; to annul, as a judicial decision, by a contrary judgment of a superior tribunal. (more info) 1. To assert the contrary of; to contradict; to deny; -- said of that which has been asserted.

Related words: (words related to DISAFFIRM)

  • JUDGMENT
    The final award; the last sentence. Note: Judgment, abridgment, acknowledgment, and lodgment are in England sometimes written, judgement, abridgement, acknowledgement, and lodgement. Note: Judgment is used adjectively in many self-explaining
  • CONTRADICTABLE
    Capable of being contradicting.
  • JUDICIAL
    1. Pertaining or appropriate to courts of justice, or to a judge; practiced or conformed to in the administration of justice; sanctioned or ordered by a court; as, judicial power; judicial proceedings; a judicial sale. "Judicial massacres."
  • ASSERT
    self, claim, maintain; ad + serere to join or bind together. See 1. To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate. Nothing is more shameful . . . than to assert anything to
  • CONTRADICTIVE
    Contradictory; inconsistent. -- Con`tra*dict"ive*ly, adv..
  • ASSERTORY
    Affirming; maintaining. Arguments . . . assertory, not probatory. Jer. Taylor. An assertory, not a promissory, declaration. Bentham. A proposition is assertory, when it enounces what is known as actual. Sir W. Hamilton.
  • ANNUL
    1. To reduce to nothing; to obliterate. Light, the prime work of God, to me's extinct. And all her various objects of delight Annulled. Milton. 2. To make void or of no effect; to nullify; to abolish; to do away with; -- used appropriately of laws,
  • ANNULARITY
    Annular condition or form; as, the annularity of a nebula. J. Rogers.
  • ANNULOID
    Of or pertaining to the Annuloida.
  • CONTRADICTORILY
    In a contradictory manner. Sharp.
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • CONTRARY
    Affirming the opposite; so opposed as to destroy each other; as, contrary propositions. Contrary motion , the progression of parts in opposite directions, one ascending, the other descending. Syn. -- Adverse; repugnant; hostile; inimical;
  • CONTRADICTION
    1. An assertion of the contrary to what has been said or affirmed; denial of the truth of a statement or assertion; contrary declaration; gainsaying. His fair demands Shall be accomplished without contradiction. Shak. 2. Direct opposition
  • CONFIRMEDLY
    With confirmation.
  • ANNULLER
    One who annuls.
  • CONFIRMEE
    One to whom anuthing is confirmed.
  • ANNULATE
    One of the Annulata.
  • ANNULARY
    Having the form of a ring; annular. Ray.
  • WHICH
    the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
  • CONTRADICTOR
    A contradicter.
  • DISANNULLER
    One who disannuls.
  • HAGUE TRIBUNAL
    The permanent court of arbitration created by the "International Convention for the Pacific Settle of International Disputes.", adopted by the International Peace Conference of 1899. It is composed of persons of known competency in questions of
  • INJUDICIAL
    Not according to the forms of law; not judicial.
  • SEMIANNULAR
    Having the figure of a half circle; forming a semicircle. Grew.
  • SELF-ASSERTION
    The act of asserting one's self, or one's own rights or claims; the quality of being self-asserting.
  • DISANNULMENT
    Complete annulment.

 

Back to top