Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To give strength to; strengthen; confirm; establish.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To give strength or support to; to confirm.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete to
strengthen ,fortify
Etymologies
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Latin roborare.
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Examples
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Both sides appear in F. Schlegel's effort to cor - roborate romantic views of Indian sublimity by direct study of Sanskrit from 1802, resulting in his Über
Dictionary of the History of Ideas BURTON FELDMAN 1968
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He re - prefented the credit of the houfe of Auftria as being as high as that of 'any other European power, a«d produced feveral inilances to cor* roborate bis aiTertion.
The New Annual Register, Or, General Repository of History, Politics, and ... 1796
biocon commented on the word roborate
All of the examples of roborate are disintegrations of corroborate.
September 24, 2011
bilby commented on the word roborate
Your findings are correct. I am the roborator.
September 24, 2011