What is "confirmatory"

Usage examples of "confirmatory".

Boerhaave, Pare, and Fabricius Hildanus all speak of this untoward effect of venery, and in modern times Poncet has made observations at a hospital in Lyons which prove that during the process of healing wounds are unduly and harmfully influenced by coitus, and cites confirmatory instances.

Though there is no doubt whatever that their dating is correct, they would like to have the confirmatory evidence by stratigraphy-digging down through layers of sediment they can date.

Then the child became aware that their companion had left them and that from the face in question a confirmatory remark had proceeded.

Then it occurred to the doctor that an extra bit of confirmatory evidence might be supplied.

James, most averse at the first blush to accepting any news confirmatory of his own poignant suspicions, took her up at once.

When a nul says he wants only the truth, he is generally after a confirmatory truth.

Thanks to these exaggerations and to various confirmatory cablegrams--Dunny had plainly set the wires humming on receiving my S.

An expression of mingled relief and pride had ironed the wrinkles out of his countenance when he heard Lady Valerie's confirmatory denial: quite plainly he had been making a dutiful effort to convince himself that the Saint had actually been caught more or less red handed, but he had never really made it stick hard enough to be able to let go of it, and it was distinctly cheering to him to be absolved from the strain of continuing to hold it down.

They will, it is known of them, dog a great House for centuries, and be at the birth of all the new heirs in succession, diligently taking confirmatory notes, to join hands and chime their chorus in one of their merry rings round the tottering pillar of the House, when his turn arrives.

That's quite good confirmatory evidence, if anything of the sort were needed.

Festus looked to Chil deric for a confirmatory nod and got one quickly.

He concealed rather than ostended this curious confirmatory circumstance, as he considered it would unfavourably affect his prospects in a new situation.

Polis would have been his guess, even if they weren't holding up warrant cards, which were in themselves less confirmatory than the standard-issue moustaches.