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Corroboration

Corroboration \Cor*rob`o*ra"tion\ (k?r-r?b`?-r?"sh?n), n. [Cf. F. corroboration.]

  1. The act of corroborating, strengthening, or confirming; addition of strength; confirmation; as, the corroboration of an argument, or of information.

  2. That which corroborates.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
corroboration

mid-15c., "strengthening, support," from Late Latin corroborationem (nominative corroboratio), noun of action from past participle stem of Latin corroborare "to strengthen" (see corroborate). Meaning "confirmation" attested by 1768.

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corroboration

n. 1 The act of corroborate, strengthening, or confirming; addition of strength; confirmation; as, the corroboration of an argument, or of information. 2 That which corroborates.

WordNet
corroboration

n. confirmation that some fact or statement is true [syn: documentation, certification]

Wikipedia
Corroboration (album)

Corroboration is a 2001 compilation released on the Festival Mushroom Records imprint, Sputnik. It was the result of a project put together by Kurt Luthy. It brought together indigenous and non indigenous musicians and bands from various genres. It reached #92 on ARIA Top 100 Albums chart. In 2002 it received an ARIA Award nomination for Best World Music Album.

Usage examples of "corroboration".

But special consensus, by force of being concerned with the actions and elements perceived in non-ordinary reality, entailed a peculiar order of conceptualization, an order that brought such perceived actions and elements into accordance with corroboration of the rule.

Wickland, are spoken, expressions never heard by her are used, while the identity of the controlling spirits has again and again been verified and corroborations 25 innumerable have been made.

All in all, the Jewish Talmudic record of Jesus is so garbled, I suggest to the jury that it cannot be used to any degree as corroboration of anything to do with Jesus.

This one was based on the Hindu tale of how Rama divorced Sita even though Agni, the sacred fire, had refused to burn her in corroboration of her chastity.

For it was amid the same obscure ravines, pine-tufted precipices and falling waters of the Alps, that he afterward placed the outcast Manfred--an additional corroboration of the justness of the remarks which I ventured to offer, in adverting to his ruminations in contemplating, while yet a boy, the Malvern hills, as if they were the scenes of his impassioned childhood.

The rule was corroborated in ordinary reality Corroboration of the rule meant the act of verifying it, the act of attesting to its validity by confirming it pragmatically in an experimental manner.

The rule was corroborated in non-ordinary reality The rule was also corroborated in non-ordinary reality, and the corroboration was carried out in the same pragmatic, experimental manner of validation as would have been employed in situations of ordinary reality.

I think we should get other corroboration before I approach Miss Soto, and I want to try questioning Coates, Jones and Fontaine again.

The corroborations your sister-in-law Rosalie supplied served to increase them instead.

Corroboration of the new diagnostic technique had assumed greater importance.

When Esher asked for corroboration of his evidence, Edmonds claimed that such revelations would compromise the security of his informants - an excuse that was copied many times by his successors to extricate themselves from awkward inquisitions by government.

In order to provide special consensus on the corroboration of the ally's rule, don Juan had to provide special consensus on the component elements of all the states of non-ordinary reality and the special states of ordinary reality elicited in the course of his teachings.

At that time, you may, if you wish, seek corroboration from the off-worlder M'tras as to Gherein's complicity in these affairs.

I was trackin' corroboration dirt on the Commies and I got a note said Hartshorn was rousted with Reynolds Loftis at a fruit bar in Santa Monica in '44.

As it was, lacking their original letters, I half suspected the compiler of having asked leading questions, or of having edited the correspondence in corroboration of what he had latently resolved to see.