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.

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• 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.