Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To support or establish the certainty or validity of; verify.
- transitive verb To reaffirm the establishment of (a reservation or advance arrangement).
- transitive verb To make firmer; strengthen.
- transitive verb To make valid or binding by a formal or legal act; ratify.
- transitive verb To administer the religious rite of confirmation to.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make firm, or more firm; add strength to; strengthen: as, one's resolution is confirmed by the approval of another.
- To settle or establish; render fixed or secure.
- To make certain or sure; give new assurance of truth or certainty to; put past doubt; verify.
- To certify or give assurance to; inform positively.
- To sanction; ratify; consummate; make valid or binding by some formal or legal act: as, to
confirm an agreement, promise, covenant, or title. - To strengthen in resolution, purpose, or opinion; fortify.
- Eccles., to admit to the full privileges of church-membership by the imposition of hands; administer the rite of confirmation to. See
confirmation , 1 . - Synonyms Corroborate, substantiate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish.
- transitive verb To strengthen in judgment or purpose.
- transitive verb To give new assurance of the truth of; to render certain; to verify; to corroborate.
- transitive verb To render valid by formal assent; to complete by a necessary sanction; to ratify.
- transitive verb (Eccl.) To administer the rite of confirmation to. See
Confirmation , 3.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
strengthen ; to makefirm orresolute . - verb To
confer theChristian sacrament ofconfirmation . - verb To
assure theaccuracy of previous statements.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb support a person for a position
- verb administer the rite of confirmation to
- verb establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts
- verb strengthen or make more firm
- verb make more firm
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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What this does confirm is two things about the way some banks responded to the flood of foreclosures:
Richard Barrington: Foreclosure Documentation Scandal Speaks Volumes About the Mechanics of the Mortgage Mess Richard Barrington 2010
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What this does confirm is two things about the way some banks responded to the flood of foreclosures:
Richard Barrington: Foreclosure Documentation Scandal Speaks Volumes About the Mechanics of the Mortgage Mess Richard Barrington 2010
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The data and the trends once again confirm that venture-backed innovation remains alive and well, at least in select areas.
Robert R. Ackerman, Jr.: IT Security Acquisitions Are Skyrocketing Jr. Robert R. Ackerman 2010
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What this does confirm is two things about the way some banks responded to the flood of foreclosures:
Richard Barrington: Foreclosure Documentation Scandal Speaks Volumes About the Mechanics of the Mortgage Mess Richard Barrington 2010
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The data and the trends once again confirm that venture-backed innovation remains alive and well, at least in select areas.
Robert R. Ackerman, Jr.: IT Security Acquisitions Are Skyrocketing Jr. Robert R. Ackerman 2010
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The data and the trends once again confirm that venture-backed innovation remains alive and well, at least in select areas.
Robert R. Ackerman, Jr.: IT Security Acquisitions Are Skyrocketing Jr. Robert R. Ackerman 2010
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The data and the trends once again confirm that venture-backed innovation remains alive and well, at least in select areas.
Robert R. Ackerman, Jr.: IT Security Acquisitions Are Skyrocketing Jr. Robert R. Ackerman 2010
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They were all the lords of fairly small districts (as you can confirm from the map of Gondor in the book), none much bigger than another, except for the large fief of Belfalas and the remote and thinly populated Anfalas, ‘the Langstrand far away’; and they all seemed to be tenants in chief of the Steward himself.
superversive: Gondor, Byzantium, and Feudalism superversive 2010
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The data and the trends once again confirm that venture-backed innovation remains alive and well, at least in select areas.
Robert R. Ackerman, Jr.: IT Security Acquisitions Are Skyrocketing Jr. Robert R. Ackerman 2010
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The data and the trends once again confirm that venture-backed innovation remains alive and well, at least in select areas.
Robert R. Ackerman, Jr.: IT Security Acquisitions Are Skyrocketing Jr. Robert R. Ackerman 2010
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