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Confirmation

noun

Additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct. Synonyms: check, substantiation, verification.

Information that confirms or verifies.

Making something valid by formally ratifying or confirming it. Synonym: ratification. "Confirmation of the appointment"

A ceremony held in the synagogue (usually at Pentecost) to admit as adult members of the Jewish community young men and women who have successfully completed a course of study in Judaism.

A sacrament admitting a baptized person to full participation in the church.

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"Confirmation" Quotes from Famous Books

... assails the humanitarian and Christian doctrine of helping the weak, when he calls into question the received code of morals, and when he extols self-assertion and strength of will, his fiery words do lend some confirmation, which he assuredly never intended, to the Prussian ideal of a State. Nietzsche was too much averse from politics to intend such an application of his teaching, which is essentially individualistic, and he had nothing but contempt for the bluster and philistinism of the Prussian State ...

— The War and the Churches • Joseph McCabe

... to offend the one man in Europe upon whose immediate aid he counted in the Turkish campaign. He accepted the gift of four thousand ducats offered by Gijsbrecht's envoys, the customary gift in asking papal confirmation for a bishop-elect, but secretly he delivered to Philip's ambassador letters patent creating David of ...

— Charles the Bold - Last Duke Of Burgundy, 1433-1477 • Ruth Putnam

... last; "and in truth it hath taken thy woman's eyes to see what was going on under our very noses and thy woman's tongue to show us the importance of Master Rolfe's courtship to the welfare of the Colony. If so small a thing as what thou hast suggested is all that stands between us and the confirmation of this marriage, why, that is as easily disposed of as this flagon of thy brother's sack which I drink to ...

— The Princess Pocahontas • Virginia Watson

... aspirations. She was still running through the papers, and, it must be said, with real intelligence and understanding, and her face was beaming with delight. It was as if from the beginning she had favored him and Anna and was now delighted to find confirmation of the confidence which ...

— The Old Flute-Player - A Romance of To-day • Edward Marshall and Charles T. Dazey

... if from other sources we have some knowledge of the facts described in a given book, and if it presents no serious discrepancies with those facts, this is some confirmation of a claim to contemporaneity. But the chief source of external evidence is other literature, where we may find the book in question referred to or quoted. Such other literature may be by another author, as when Aristotle refers to a dialogue of Plato's, ...

— Logic - Deductive and Inductive • Carveth Read

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