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/səbstˌæntʃiˈeɪʃən/ /səbstˌænʃiˈeɪʃən/ Listen

Substantiation

noun

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

The act of validating; finding or testing the truth of something. Synonyms: proof, validation.

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... Fahrenheit; for, at the considerable distance we are now from the sun, it is easy to conceive that, with the axis much inclined, there might be cold weather, during the Northern hemisphere's winter, that would last for about six of our years, even as near the equator as this. The substantiation of an ice-cap at the pole will disprove the first hypothesis; for what we took for ice before alighting may have been but banks of cloud, since, having been in the plane of the planet's equator at ...

— A Journey in Other Worlds • J. J. Astor

... be used continually, and the works of Sidonius Apollinaris whose correspondence interlarded with flashes of wit, pungencies, archaisms and enigmas, allured him. He willingly re-read the panegyrics in which this bishop invokes pagan deities in substantiation of his vainglorious eulogies; and, in spite of everything, he confessed a weakness for the affectations of these verses, fabricated, as it were, by an ingenious mechanician who operates his machine, oils his wheels and invents ...

— Against The Grain • Joris-Karl Huysmans

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