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- adjective That serves to
validate
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- adjective serving to support or corroborate
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Examples
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If we accept the validatory authority of those texts as divinely-inspired scripture, if we validate those texts as divinely authoritative, the Word of God, treat them as articles of faith rather than grist for the philosophical mill, then we're complicit, I think, in their use as justification for what I call irrational, vengeful ruthlessness.
Archive 2006-02-01 Hal Duncan 2006
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If we accept the validatory authority of those texts as divinely-inspired scripture, if we validate those texts as divinely authoritative, the Word of God, treat them as articles of faith rather than grist for the philosophical mill, then we're complicit, I think, in their use as justification for what I call irrational, vengeful ruthlessness.
Wisdom, Justice And Mercy Hal Duncan 2006
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Charles sports an honors degree in political science and economics, but/(according to me) he uses history selectively in support of his various arguments Treatises that are invariably supportive of George Bush and the Iraq war, as well as unfailingly validatory of Israel.
Charles Krauthammer's Refreshing Dip Into Selective History 2007
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For the cross-validation to mean anything at all, they'd have to use the separate winner on each of the cross-validatory fits.
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