Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Being firmly settled in habit; inveterate. synonym: chronic.
- adjective Having been ratified; verified.
- adjective Having received the rite of confirmation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Made firm; fixed; established; inveterate; steadfast; settled: as, a confirmed skeptic; a confirmed drunkard; a confirmed valetudinarian.
- Eccles., admitted to the full privileges of the church by the laying on of hands. See
confirmation , 1 .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
confirm . - adjective having a
settled habit ;inveterate orhabitual - adjective
verified orratified - adjective Christianity having received the
rite ofconfirmation
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of persons; not subject to change
- adjective having been established or made firm or received the rite of confirmation
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Examples
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The fruit of long ages of confirmed Valethood, entirely confirmed as into a Law of Nature; cloth-worship and quack-worship: entirely _confirmed_ Valethood, -- which will have to unconfirm itself again; God knows, with difficulty enough!
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838
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The fruit of long ages of confirmed Valethood, entirely confirmed as into a Law of Nature; cloth-worship and quack-worship: entirely _confirmed_ Valethood, -- which will have to
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838
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A security official in the 11th Division headquarters who declined to give his name confirmed the scene.
Protesters say Maliki is using special security forces to shut down demonstrations in Iraq 2011
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His expression confirmed that was never going to happen.
Johanna Lindsey That Perfect Someone 2010
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His expression confirmed that was never going to happen.
Johanna Lindsey That Perfect Someone 2010
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His expression confirmed that was never going to happen.
Johanna Lindsey That Perfect Someone 2010
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His expression confirmed that was never going to happen.
Johanna Lindsey That Perfect Someone 2010
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His expression confirmed that was never going to happen.
Johanna Lindsey That Perfect Someone 2010
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American-born Lord Fairfax, who, in this twentieth century, has become an English subject, his title confirmed to him by the House of Lords in November, 1908.
Harrison, Mrs. Burton, 1843-1920. Recollections Grave and Gay 1911
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I expect to get the title confirmed, and then each one of you boys must sell himself to a beautiful American girl for from 75,000 to 250,000 pounds.
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