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What's The Definition Of Yea?

\Yea\ (y[=a] or y[=e]; 277), adv. [OE. ye, ya, [yogh]e, [yogh]a, AS. ge['a]; akin to OFries. g[=e], i[=e], OS., D., OHG., G., Dan. & Sw. ja, Icel, j[=a], Goth. ja, jai, and probably to Gr. "h^ truly, verily. [root]188. Cf. {Yes}.] 1. Yes; ay; a word expressing assent, or an affirmative, or an affirmative answer to a question, now superseded by yes. See {Yes}. Let your communication be yea, yea; nay, nay. --Matt. v. 37. 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. I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice. --Phil. i. 18. Note: 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.
\Yea\, n. An affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative; as, a vote by yeas and nays. Note: 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.