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Confirmation is an album by pianist Tommy Flanagan compiling unreleased tracks recorded in 1977 and 1978 at sessions that produced Eclypso and Ballads & Blues which was released on the Enja label in 1982.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, confyrmacyoun , the Church rite, from Old French confirmacion (13c.) "strengthening, confirmation; proof; ratification," from Latin confirmationem (nominative confirmatio ) "a securing, establishing; an assurance, encouragement," noun of action ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE final ▪ Had it been the final confirmation of her suspicions? ▪ But the final confirmation of this accord never came. ▪ She had the final confirmation that Jenny was not Henry's child, so the original plan was going ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An official indicator that things will happen as planned 2 Verification that something has happened 3 A sacrament of sealing and strengthening in many Christian Churches, often including a ceremony of anointing
WordNet
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n. additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct; "fossils provided further confirmation of the evolutionary theory" [syn: verification , check , substantiation ] information that confirms or verifies making ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Confirmation \Con`fir*ma"tion\, n. [F. confirmation, L. confirmatio.] The act of confirming or strengthening; the act of establishing, ratifying, or sanctioning; as, the confirmation of an appointment. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest ...
Usage examples of confirmation.
Jesus on the sidelines, antigay conservatives looking for confirmation in the New Testament are stuck with St.
It brought a confirmation of the treaty, recently signed between England and France, which set at rest all fears that Pontiac might receive French aid in his present struggle.
Taped to the envelope was a confirmation form for a private water taxi to the island of Capri with a company called Taxi Del Mare.
The man who does evil from love of evil and confirms it in himself acts indeed from freedom according to reason, but his freedom is not in itself freedom or very freedom, but an infernal freedom which in itself is bondage, and his reason is not in itself reason, but is either spurious or false or plausible through confirmations.
Every piece of cargo arriving at the Boongate CST station came with a full complement of files on shipping details, purchase invoices, payment confirmation, packaging companies, handling agents.
The most concise and satisfactory confirmation came from the Flintshire Hotel, who remembered Fairfax and had a record of his having stayed there that night under the name of Fortescue.
Regeneration suffices for those who are on the point of death, yet the graces of Confirmation are necessary for those who are to conquer.
A fancied confirmation to the unhappiness of the marriage is found in the expression of the wife in a portrait which Holbein painted of her and his children when he was at Basle.
Similar writing was exposed to light and the weather from September 25 to December 8, and the result of the resistance of the inks in both tests is an almost exact confirmation of the report of the chemists, inks of the same class varying in their resistance according to their specific gravity or amount of added color.
When the change is made a confirmation must be sent to the requesting manager via intracompany mail.
If she died at Three Zed, Tel was to distribute whatever remained of her allowance to Kinnor and Kiel, pending their confirmation as heirs.
Frank Skimmerhorn pondered this matter of the Lamanites, and he asked throughout Nauvoo for other recollections the villagers might have as to what exactly the Mormons had said during their unhappy stay there on their way to Salt Lake City, and he came up with a profound body of confirmation.
Later, as confirmation, his course in polymer theory was taught by Professor-Doctor Laszlo Jamf, who was latest in the true succession, Liebig to August Wilhelm von Hofmann, to Herbert Canister to Laszlo Jamf, a direct chain, cause-and-effect.
Nabokovian tactic, a safeguard, a confirmation, and a reflection of the manysidedness of fact in the real world.
If she could find them in the monkey meat, that would be another confirmation that the monkeys were hot.