Verification
[,verɪfɪ'keɪʃ(ə)n] or [,vɛrɪfɪ'keʃən]
Definition
(noun.) (law) an affidavit attached to a statement confirming the truth of that statement.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Authentication, attestation, confirmation, corroboration.
Edited by Abraham
Examples
- I had no time for verification, no time for selection, no time for anything, for I had no time to spare. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Hutton was so elated at the verification of his view that the Scotch guides thought he had struck gold, or silver at the ve ry least. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The theory of the four elements--the hot, the cold, the moist, the dry--led to dogmatic statements with little attempt at verification. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Moreover, beyond the newspaper reports there is little verification that any steps were really taken at that time. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It was a rather stiff, sad meeting, more like a verification of separateness than a reunion. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Those who support a hypothesis should bring it to the test of rigid verification, avoiding skepticism, shunning credulity. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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