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Verify; ratify
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confirm
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 To strengthen; to make firm or resolute. 2 (context transitive Christianity English) To administer the sacrament of confirmation on (someone). 3 To assure the accuracy of previous statements.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-13c., confirmyn "to ratify," from Old French confermer (13c., Modern French confirmer ) "strengthen, establish, consolidate; affirm by proof or evidence; anoint (a king)," from Latin confirmare "make firm, strengthen, establish," from com- , intensive ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a study confirms sth (= shows that something is true ) ▪ The study confirms what we all know – smoking is also bad for the people around you. confirm a booking ▪ Please confirm your booking 48 hours before your flight. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts; "his story confirmed my doubts"; "The evidence supports the defendant" [syn: corroborate , sustain , substantiate , support , affirm ] [ant: negate ] strengthen or make more firm; "The witnesses ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Confirm \Con*firm"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Confrmed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Confirming .] [OE. confermen, confirmen, OF. confermer, F. confirmer, fr. L. confirmare; con- + firmare to make firm, fr. firmus firm. See Firm .] To make firm or firmer; to add strength ...
Usage examples of confirm.
Bottom line, Abram Schuster wanted Wilson Caufeld to be confirmed in the worst way.
Caufeld could be confirmed, Abram appointed to a district judgeship and Edie appointed the U.
Franklin had wasted no time confirming what Adams had heard at Bordeaux.
The rumors of this that reached Adams at Quincy would be confirmed before the year was out by his old friend Elbridge Gerry, who was a presidential elector for Massachusetts and, like Adams, an ardent antiparty man.
Nick and Miss Courtenay in the middle of aera rather violent argument, during the course of which Miss Courtenay confirmed my suspicions.
This appetite for grapes is so well confirmed by Aesop, and by passages in the Scriptures, that it is strange Mr.
This passage quite confirms his view of the events connected with the overthrow of the Alamannic Kingdom by Clovis.
Beatrice Mangan provide Macrodur with a copy of the Tokyo research confirming eradication of the allomorphic trait in the body through substitution of human DNA.
The Anthocerotales, on the other hand, stand in an isolated position, and recent researches have served to emphasize this rather than to confirm the relationship with the Jungermanniales suggested by Leitgeb.
Cicero advocated that the House officially confirm Marcus Brutus the governor of Macedonia, and asked the Antonians why they were so against the two Brutuses, Decimus and Marcus?
To these he added a more solid present, of one hundred and forty-four thousand Byzantines of gold, with a further assurance of two hundred and sixteen thousand, so soon as Henry should have entered in arms the Apulian territories, and confirmed by an oath the league against the common enemy.
At the Inverness Parliament the Earl of Atholl and Thomas Randolph offered Bruce their allegiance, the Earl of Atholl was then confirmed in his lands and Randolph was given the Earldom of Moray.
Later, the audiologist confirmed that there was no physical impairment in his auditorychannels.
I hoped the information would help confirm that I was from England, not Tel Aviv as the crowd had seemed to believe.
There are wild rumors that the Yankees are bombing Bangkok, that their Marines are landing in the city, but nothing confirmed.