reaffirmance

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English

Etymology

From re- +‎ affirmance, after reaffirm.

Noun

reaffirmance (countable and uncountable, plural reaffirmances)

  1. (chiefly law) A second or subsequent affirmance; a reaffirmation.
    • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford, published 2009, page 32:
      [B]oth the one and the other were nothing more than a re-affirmance of the still more antient standing law of the kingdom.