Affirmation

Our AHD defines the word affirmation as, "Something declared to be true; a positive statement or judgment." For this words etymology we must look at the word affirm's history. Affirm came to our modern language from Middle English and from there Old French and originally Latin. The Latin word that affirm comes from is affirmare meaning "toward, to strengthen."

I chose this word because it is the name of one of my favorite songs and I have listened to it for years but had never really thought about it's title, and so I was curious... Just in case you were wondering, its title isn't mentioned at all in the song, but makes complete sense because of what the song is about.