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Confirm

verb

(past & past part. confrmed; pres. part. confirming)

Establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts. Synonyms: affirm, corroborate, substantiate, support, sustain. "The evidence supports the defendant" Antonym: negate.

Strengthen or make more firm. Synonym: reassert.

Make more firm.

Support a person for a position.

Administer the rite of confirmation to.

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"Confirm" Quotes from Famous Books

... occasion for belts between us to confirm a brother's words, when this leathern girth I wear around my body carries a red wampum which all may see and read—my war axe and ...

— The Hidden Children • Robert W. Chambers

... not speak," she pursued nervously. "Why do you not speak? Ah, you know more than you would say! Master John, Master John, you might set my tortured mind at rest, and clear or confirm those doubts which will come into my poor head, spite of myself. Speak out—O, do ...

— A Stable for Nightmares - or Weird Tales • J. Sheridan Le Fanu

... not his. "I came to—day because I have made up my mind. I wanted them to confirm me—to say that I was right. If you weren't here, I should go up to them and whisper to them, as I've seen women do to the Madonna abroad. I should ...

— Rest Harrow - A Comedy of Resolution • Maurice Hewlett

... To confirm what has been said, and to elucidate what is to follow, we will pause a moment to learn what ...

— Mysticism and its Results - Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy • John Delafield

... repeated, as if he weighed the meaning of the words. "No, perhaps you're right. But her engagement has changed her. Naturally," he added, "one would expect that to be so." He waited for Henry to confirm this statement, but Henry ...

— Night and Day • Virginia Woolf

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