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Synonyms for yea

Grammar : Noun
Spell : yey
Phonetic Transcription : yeɪ

Définition of yea

Origin :
  • Old English gea (West Saxon), ge (Anglian) "so, yes," from Proto-Germanic *ja-, *jai-, a word of affirmation (cf. German, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish ja), from PIE *yam-, from pronomial stem *i- (see yon).
  • noun affirmative
Example sentences :
  • Yea, like a woman, who deems a man safest when he is a tailor, or a perfumer.
  • Extract from : « The Armourer's Prentices » by Charlotte M. Yonge
  • Let me see—I trust I have forgot it not—yea, thus it was: 'The lion growls.
  • Extract from : « The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood » by Howard Pyle
  • No God--yea, all the way the "fools" were saying in their hearts, no God.
  • Extract from : « Slavery Ordained of God » by Rev. Fred A. Ross, D.D.
  • Yea, whether the Bible be true, is no question with them no more than with him.
  • Extract from : « Slavery Ordained of God » by Rev. Fred A. Ross, D.D.
  • Yea, it was this law, and this law only, which made it wrong.
  • Extract from : « Slavery Ordained of God » by Rev. Fred A. Ross, D.D.
  • Yea, as a friend who loves you far too dearly to advise you to commit any folly.
  • Extract from : « A Comedy of Marriage and Other Tales » by Guy De Maupassant
  • Yea, He shall cut them off utterly in His wrath, and they shall be destroyed.'
  • Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Oh, yea, I remember; and you told me you came from the office.
  • Extract from : « Henry Dunbar » by M. E. Braddon
  • All doing seemed at an end, yea God himself to be resting and thinking.
  • Extract from : « Heather and Snow » by George MacDonald
  • God preserveth the sanctified, yea, even in the midst of errors.
  • Extract from : « Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther » by Martin Luther

Antonyms for yea

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