affirmativeness


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Noun1.affirmativeness - the agreeable quality of one who assentsaffirmativeness - the agreeable quality of one who assents
agreeability, agreeableness - a temperamental disposition to be agreeable
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This idea also emerges from an exploration of the allegorical behind other resources in the novel, from the use of the word "okey" to convey several meaningsi (or none at all) that surpass affirmativeness, to the symbol of the fire palliating the loss of the sun, or the ritualism constructed around the boy within a world that has been dispossessed of all meaning.
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Nathan's personal and theological affirmativeness translated into a critical method aligned ultimately with the "peri huphous" of Longinus.
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