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Substantiate v. t. (past & past part. substantiated; pres. part. substantiating)

To make to exist; to make real.

To establish the existence or truth of by proof or competent evidence; to verify; as, to substantiate a charge or allegation; to substantiate a declaration. "Observation is, in turn, wanted to direct and substantiate the course of experiment."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Substantiating" Quotes from Famous Books

... bringing comic papers. Gard pleased him by saying he was veering round to the journalist's way of thinking on things German. He related the Der Tag incident at the ball. The family life of the Teutons, the life of the plain people—all were substantiating the essential and alarming truth of the old man's beliefs. At last another American in Germany had been found who was experiencing an awakening. The result was a ...

— Villa Elsa - A Story of German Family Life • Stuart Henry

... MELISSA most vigorously denied the soft impeachment. Then she saw the sad wives, whose days of sunshine are gone by, and the merry ones,—who don the cap and bells deliberately; and for their benefit she expended just the proper degree of astonishment and sympathy—so fully substantiating the sound and praiseworthy condition of her own mind ...

— Punchinello, Vol. II., No. 34, November 19, 1870 • Various