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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
confirmed
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
confirmed bachelor (=a man who has decided that he will never marry)
▪ Gerald was 38, and a confirmed bachelor .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be confirmed
▪ Again, this was confirmed by the application of simple statistical regression analysis.
▪ If your experiment is confirmed, it will be a sensational advance.
▪ In the March 18 reshuffle nine ministers were confirmed in their positions.
▪ In the remaining patient, amyloid deposits of the jejunum were confirmed by intraoperative biopsy specimens.
▪ It was confirmed last night that the idea of privately-run detention centres was being pursued within the Home Office.
▪ Moments later his suspicions were confirmed as it gradually slid open.
▪ That was confirmed on Saturday and Ratner was told around 1 p. m. that afternoon.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But he was a confirmed teetotaller.
▪ Teachers are not required to give a confirmed level for a pupil at any one moment during the key stage.
▪ The confirmed hard left on the executive is now reduced to two: Tony Benn, and Dennis Skinner.
▪ The Commissioner of Inland Revenue made and confirmed assessments on the taxpayer for those years in respect of the profits from sub-licensing the films.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
confirmed

late 14c., of diseases, "firmly established," past participle adjective from confirm. Of persons and their habits, from 1826.

Wiktionary
confirmed
  1. 1 having a settled habit; inveterate or habitual 2 verified or ratified 3 (context Christianity English) having received the rite of confirmation v

  2. (en-past of: confirm)

WordNet
confirmed
  1. adj. of persons; not subject to change; "a confirmed bachelor"; "a confirmed invalid"

  2. having been established or made firm or received the rite of confirmation; "confirmed reservations"; "received confirmed reports of casualties"; "a confirmed Catholic" [ant: unconfirmed]

  3. having a habit of long standing; "a chronic smoker" [syn: chronic, habitual, inveterate(a)]

Usage examples of "confirmed".

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.

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.

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.

There are wild rumors that the Yankees are bombing Bangkok, that their Marines are landing in the city, but nothing confirmed.

Later on in life I was the victim of a cruel hoax, carried out with triumphant ingenuity by a confirmed practical joker, who with the aid of a thread caused what appeared to be a gigantic blackbeetle to perform strange and unholy evolutions in my sitting-room.

A clerk in a ticket agency in North Germany sent a message to say a certain bakery proprietor in Bremerhaven had just confirmed bookings on a winter cruise for himself and his wife.

During these transactions, his Prussian majesty made his public entrance into Breslau, and confirmed all the privileges of the inhabitants.

The medical tome confirmed his guess that science was trying to keep up with unfortunates such as the late Bubblehead Burnside.

Mark Brandon at the close of the altercation with the murdered Swindell, which more strongly than ever confirmed her in the opinion that she possessed a power over the bushranger, which she might be able to use to the advantage of herself and her helpless companion in distress.

Following the instructions posted on the bulletin board across from the desk, Hel confirmed the three-day casita reservation for a Mr.