Confirmation
[kɒnfə'meɪʃ(ə)n] or [,kɑnfɚ'meʃən]
Definition
(noun.) a sacrament admitting a baptized person to full participation in the church.
(noun.) 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.
(noun.) additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct; 'fossils provided further confirmation of the evolutionary theory'.
(noun.) information that confirms or verifies.
Typist: Rebecca--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of confirming or strengthening; the act of establishing, ratifying, or sanctioning; as, the confirmation of an appointment.
(n.) That which confirms; that which gives new strength or assurance; as to a statement or belief; additional evidence; proof; convincing testimony.
(n.) A rite supplemental to baptism, by which a person is admitted, through the laying on of the hands of a bishop, to the full privileges of the church, as in the Roman Catholic, the Episcopal Church, etc.
(n.) A conveyance by which a voidable estate is made sure and not voidable, or by which a particular estate is increased; a contract, express or implied, by which a person makes that firm and binding which was before voidable.
Typed by Felix
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Settlement, establishment.[2]. Corroboration, substantiation, verification, proof.[3]. Ratification, sanction.
Edited by Guthrie
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See CONFIRM]
Typed by Brooke
Examples
- Mrs. Archer smiled at this confirmation of her inference. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Does this discovery of some one lost, this return of some one so long gone, come upon him as a strong confirmation of his hopes? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I prepared her for confirmation--she is a favorite of mine. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- They appeal to history for confirmation: have not all social changes, they ask, meant the emergence of a new economic class until it dominated society? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Such an exception as this is, therefore, rather a confirmation of the rule. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Not showing himself much impressed by this remarkable confirmation of the informer's evidence, Lightwood inquired what other business they had there? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I would further ask the confirmation of General Humphreys to the rank of Major-General. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- We do not solicit donations in locations where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Had it contained confirmation, she must have been annihilated. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The third phaenomenon I have remarked will be a full confirmation of this. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- It was only the confirmation of the dark presages which had long gone before. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Shake hands in confirmation of the word. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- In confirmation of this view, let us glance at the classification of varieties, which are known or believed to be descended from a single species. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Mr. Pickwick gave a heavy blow on the table before him, in confirmation of the irrevocability of his intention. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The present hypothesis will receive additional confirmation, if we examine the effects of other kinds of custom, as well as of other relations. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
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