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/kərˈɑbərˌeɪt/ Listen

verb

Corroborate v. t. (past & past part. corroborated; pres. part. corroborating)

To make strong, or to give additional strength to; to strengthen. (Obs.) "As any limb well and duly exercised, grows stronger, the nerves of the body are corroborated thereby."

To make more certain; to confirm; to establish. "The concurrence of all corroborates the same truth."

adjective

Corroborate adj. Corroborated. (Obs.)

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... transaction of which he fell, for he was felling trees, and a tree fell upon him. He left a widow and two daughters: it was said that at his death Mrs Mason was not badly off, as her husband had been very careful of his earnings. Mrs Mason, however, did not corroborate this statement; on the contrary, she invariably pleaded poverty; and the Honourable Miss Delmar, after Lord de Versely's death— which happened soon after that of his steward—sent both the daughters to be educated at a country ...

— Percival Keene • Frederick Marryat

... seventeenth: the relative merits, that is, of the principles contained in each. Now, as regards the eighteenth-century costume, Mr. Wentworth Huyshe acknowledges that he has had no practical experience of it at all; in fact, he makes a pathetic appeal to his friends to corroborate him in his assertion, which I do not question for a moment, that he has never been 'guilty of the eccentricity' of wearing himself the dress which he proposes for general adoption by others. There is something so naive and so amusing about ...

— Miscellanies • Oscar Wilde

... Adrenals.—Histologic studies of the adrenals after the application of the adequate stimuli which gave positive results to the Cannon test for adrenalin are now in progress, and thus far the histologic studies corroborate the functional tests. ...

— The Origin and Nature of Emotions • George W. Crile

... exasperated frame of mind, Button had been ready to believe almost any story at the expense of Lanier, and, such is the perversity of human nature, it added to rather than diminished his wrath that his revered senior surgeon should promptly corroborate the statements of both Schuchardt and Ennis, and further assume personal and entire responsibility for the episode of Saturday afternoon in Lanier's quarters. That episode had started many a tongue, and one of Button's henchmen, ...

— Lanier of the Cavalry - or, A Week's Arrest • Charles King

... subsequently to the incidents above narrated, Miss Temple, who had written to Mr. Lloyd, received his answer: it appeared that what he said went to corroborate my account. Miss Temple, having assembled the whole school, announced that inquiry had been made into the charges alleged against Jane Eyre, and that she was most happy to be able to pronounce her completely cleared from every imputation. The teachers then shook hands with me and kissed ...

— Jane Eyre - an Autobiography • Charlotte Bronte

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