To assert or confirm something in opposition to another assertion.
Counter- + affirm (to state positively). This rare word combines the opposition prefix with affirm, creating a term for making competing positive assertions.
In court, when one witness says 'the light was red' and another counteraffirms 'no, it was green,' you've got a legal battle on your hands based on competing certainties.
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