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verb

Confirm v. t. (past & past part. confrmed; pres. part. confirming)

1.

To make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise. "Confirm the crown to me and to mine heirs." "And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law."

2.

To strengthen in judgment or purpose. "Confirmed, then, I resolve Adam shall share with me in bliss or woe."

3.

To give new assurance of the truth of; to render certain; to verify; to corroborate; as, to confirm a rumor. "Your eyes shall witness and confirm my tale." "These likelihoods confirm her flight."

4.

To render valid by formal assent; to complete by a necessary sanction; to ratify; as, to confirm the appoinment of an official; the Senate confirms a treaty. "That treaty so prejudicial ought to have been remitted rather than confimed."

5.

(Eccl.) To administer the rite of confirmation to. See Confirmation, 3. "Those which are thus confirmed are thereby supposed to be fit for admission to the sacrament."

Synonyms: To strengthen; corroborate; substantiate; establish; fix; ratify; settle; verify; assure.

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Etymology of 'Confirming'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Confirming" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the theory of Bright and Boaden (Gentleman's Magazine, 1832), afterward confirmed by a book written by Charles Armitage Brown (1838); the theories of Hunter, Hallam, Dyce, Mrs. Jameson, M. Chasles, Ulrici, Gervinus and many others (most of them, by the way, confirming the theory originated by Boaden and Bright); and having thus gone over the work of twenty-five named authors, and a space of time extending from 1817 to 1866, Mr. Massey begins his second chapter by saying that as yet there has never been any genuine attempt to interpret ...

— Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science, April 1875, Vol. XV., No. 88 • Various

... that did not release me. When at last I received an answer to my inquiries, confirming the statement of the immigrant from Ohio, it ...

— The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems • Frances Fuller Victor

... whence he came. And the Court proceeded to consider their finding and sentence, which finding and sentence, being signed by the President and the Judge-Advocate, duly went its appointed way to the Confirming Authority and there remained. For the General in Chief command in the field was hard pressed with other and weightier matters, having reason to believe that he would have to meet an attack of three Army Corps on a front of eight miles with only one Division. Which belief turned ...

— Leaves from a Field Note-Book • J. H. Morgan

... as confirming me, Lady Lundie. Thank you. Now, as to the method of carrying out our friend's advice. The method seems plain. All we can do to divert Blanche's mind is to turn Blanche's attention to some other subject of reflection ...

— Man and Wife • Wilkie Collins

... 15th of April, the pontifical bulls arrived from Rome, confirming the election of the Senor Posada to the Archiepiscopal dignity; and on Saturday last, the 31st of May, the consecration took place in the cathedral with the greatest pomp. The presiding bishop was the Senor Belaunzaran, the old Bishop of Linares; the two assistant bishops were ...

— Life in Mexico • Frances Calderon De La Barca

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