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Yea (yā or yē; 277), adv. [OE. ye, ya, ȝe, ȝa, AS. geá; akin to OFries. gē, iē, OS., D., OHG., G., Dan. & Sw. ja, Icel, jā, Goth. ja, jai, and probably to Gr. ἧ truly, verily. √188.  Cf. Yes.]

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    1. Yes; ay; a word expressing assent, or an affirmative, or an affirmative answer to a question, now superseded by yes.  See Yes.

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    Let your communication be yea, yea; nay, nay. Matt. v. 37.

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    2. More than this; not only so, but; -- used to mark the addition of a more specific or more emphatic clause.  Cf. Nay, adv., 2.

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    I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice. Phil. i. 18.

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    ☞ Yea sometimes introduces a clause, with the sense of indeed, verily, truly. “Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?”  Gen. iii. 1.

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Yea, n. An affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative; as, “a vote by yeas and nays”.

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    ☞ In the Scriptures, yea is used as a sign of certainty or stability. “All the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen.”  2 Cor. i. 20.

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