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verb

Confirm v. t. (past & past part. confrmed; pres. part. confirming)

1.

To make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise. "Confirm the crown to me and to mine heirs." "And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law."

2.

To strengthen in judgment or purpose. "Confirmed, then, I resolve Adam shall share with me in bliss or woe."

3.

To give new assurance of the truth of; to render certain; to verify; to corroborate; as, to confirm a rumor. "Your eyes shall witness and confirm my tale." "These likelihoods confirm her flight."

4.

To render valid by formal assent; to complete by a necessary sanction; to ratify; as, to confirm the appoinment of an official; the Senate confirms a treaty. "That treaty so prejudicial ought to have been remitted rather than confimed."

5.

(Eccl.) To administer the rite of confirmation to. See Confirmation, 3. "Those which are thus confirmed are thereby supposed to be fit for admission to the sacrament."

Synonyms: To strengthen; corroborate; substantiate; establish; fix; ratify; settle; verify; assure.

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"Confirm" Quotes from Famous Books

... there had been appeals made by the Christians of the former age, to the acts of Pilate, but that such acts could not be produced, imagined it would be of service to Christianity to fabricate and publish this Gospel; as it would both confirm the Christians under persecution, and convince the Heathens of the truth of the Christian religion. The Rev. Jeremiah Jones says, that such pious frauds were very common among Christians even in the first three centuries; and that ...

— The Forbidden Gospels and Epistles, Complete • Archbishop Wake

... indifferent; and yet it would have been difficult to analyse her wishes; she was quite decided that it was becoming in her to refuse Henri's prayer, nay, that it would be selfish in her to grant it; and yet, though she appealed to Reason so confidently to confirm her refusal, there was a wish, almost a hope, near her heart, that Agatha might take her brother's part. They were, neither of them, ...

— La Vendee • Anthony Trollope

... deriding all politics as a fool's employment. Latterly he had been wondering how far this habit would protect him, had made shrewd guesses at the truth and had come to the stage of question. Yesterday's work helped him to confirm these vague suspicions. How came it that Lois Boriskoff was able to warn this young Englishman, why had she come immediately to his hotel and followed him to the old quarters of the city? This could ...

— Aladdin of London - or Lodestar • Sir Max Pemberton

... charts of the gridironed face of Mars containing so much astonishing detail that one had either to reject them in toto or to confess that Schiaparelli was right. As subsequent favorable oppositions of Mars occurred, other observers began to see the "canals'' and to confirm the substantial accuracy of the Italian astronomer's work, and finally few were found who would venture to affirm that the "canals'' did not exist, whatever their ...

— Curiosities of the Sky • Garrett Serviss

... families in respect to younger sons, his parents were of opinion that if some "nice girl" could be found for Dick it would be the best thing that could happen,—a thing which would lighten their own responsibilities, and probably confirm him ...

— A Country Gentleman and his Family • Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

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