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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 yea /ˈje/
 肯定,贊成,贊成票

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Yea adv.
 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 Yes; ay; a word expressing assent, or an affirmative, or an affirmative answer to a question, now superseded by yes.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?”

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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.”
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 yea
      n : an affirmative; "The yeas have it" [ant: nay]
      adv : not only so, but; "I therein do rejoice, yea, and will
            rejoice" [syn: yeah]