reaffirmance
English edit
Etymology edit
From re- + affirmance, after reaffirm.
Noun edit
reaffirmance (countable and uncountable, plural reaffirmances)
- (chiefly law) A second or subsequent affirmance; a reaffirmation. [from 17th c.]
- 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.