Synonyms:
yea
Meaning: an affirmative; "The yeas have it"
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meaning of the word
Synonyms:
yea, yeah
Meaning: not only so, but; "I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice"
Usage examples
And he said, Yea, O king, they be whole.
Yea, wilt thou comfort their souls in Christ.
And he said unto me: There is no God; yea, and he taught me that which I should say.
"Night shall be thrice night over you, And heaven an iron cope. Do you have joy without a cause, Yea, faith without a hope?"
Yea, this ego, with its contradiction and perplexity, speaketh most uprightly of its being--this creating, willing, evaluing ego, which is the measure and value of things.
I do not glory of myself, but I glory in that which the Lord hath commanded me; yea, and this is my glory, that perhaps I may be an instrument in the hands of God to bring some soul to repentance; and this is my joy.
I do not aspire or desire to marry both, especially if I should, like Jacob, have to begin with the wrong one, however tender-eyed: but for divine Yoletta I could serve seven years; yea, and fourteen, if it comes to it.
But with his wife his speech was,--not exactly yea, yea, and nay, nay,--but yes, yes, and no, no. It was not unnatural therefore that she should specially dislike this weakness of his which came from his emotional temperament.