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Another word for yea

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Adverb

  1. It is so; as you say or ask

    See also:

    affirm

Noun

  1. An affirmative vote or voter

      1. An affirmative vote or a person voting this way
      2. An affirmative or consenting reply.
      3. The act of saying yes; affirmative reply; agreement
      1. An affirmative vote or voter:
      2. An affirmative vote or a person voting affirmatively
      3. An affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative.
    See also:

    affirm

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Another word for yea

Interjection
  1. See also:

    yes

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Sentence Examples

  • Yea, verily, they shall be saved from God's ire (de ira) and called to the mercy of Christ.

  • In addition, the citizen is often called upon to vote yea or nay on questions such as amendments to the state constitutions, granting of licences, and approval or disapproval of new municipal undertakings.

  • It is in this connexion that he insists on the necessity of the Nay to the Yea, of the negative to the positive.

  • The following passage indicates the contemporary theory of manuring: - " In thy tillage are these special opportunities to improve it, either by liming, marling, sanding, earthing, mudding, snayl-codding, mucking, chalking, pidgeons-dung, hens-dung, hogs-dung or by any other means as some by rags, some by coarse wool, by pitch marks, and tarry stuff, any oyly stuff, salt and many things more, yea indeed any thing almost that bath any liquidness, foulness, saltness or good moysture in it, is very naturall inrichment to almost any sort of land."

  • 15: " Yea, even their ` boys ' lorded it over the people "), under a tyranny of pashas of the worst type (verses ii f.).

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