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Substantiating

adjective
1.
Serving to support or corroborate.  Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying.


Substantiate

verb
(past & past part. substantiated; pres. part. substantiating)
1.
Establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts.  Synonyms: affirm, confirm, corroborate, support, sustain.  "The evidence supports the defendant"  Antonym: negate.
2.
Represent in bodily form.  Synonyms: body forth, embody, incarnate.  "The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist"
3.
Make real or concrete; give reality or substance to.  Synonyms: actualise, actualize, realise, realize.
4.
Solidify, firm, or strengthen.





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"Substantiating" Quotes from Famous Books



... of cards. Staunton had little difficulty in establishing the identity of the black-bearded man who had appeared here and there during the wedding festivities with Kalmar himself. From the stupid Paulina he skilfully drew evidence substantiating this fact, and though this evidence was ruled out on the ground that she was the prisoner's wife, the effect upon the jury was ...
— The Foreigner • Ralph Connor
... Telepathy also applies to many much higher phases of occult phenomena and psychic manifestations. In fact, this is one of the reasons why we have paid such close attention to the scientific evidence substantiating this class of phenomena. It is not too much to say that in what has been said in the foregoing pages there is to be found a scientific basis for the phenomenon of "spirit communication," at least in many of its phases. It is but a step in thought—and a natural and easy step at that—from the ...
— Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers • Bhakta Vishita
... even rested but in the porch of the Alexandrian philosophy, would not rather say, 'of substantiating powers and attributes into being?' What is the whole system from Philo to Plotinus, and thence to Proclus inclusively, but one fanciful process of hypostasizing logical conceptions and generic terms? In Proclus it is Logolatry ...
— Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
... believe) remarked that in certain governments only two creatures find their way to the highest places, the eagle and the serpent, the metaphor not only conveys with great vividness the assertion intended, but contributes toward substantiating it, by suggesting, in a lively manner, the means by which the two opposite characters thus typified effect their rise. When it is said that a certain person misunderstands another because the lesser of two objects can not comprehend the greater, the application of what is true in the literal sense ...
— A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive • John Stuart Mill
... replied Thirlby, "who had been nurse to my wife. Mike Macascree was one of my father's servants, and was in his younger days a merry, worthless fellow. The heavy calamity under which he now labours had not then befallen him. On taking charge of my daughter, his wife received certain papers substantiating the child's origin, together with a miniature, and a small golden amulet. The papers and miniature were delivered by her on her death-bed to the piper, who showed them ...
— Old Saint Paul's - A Tale of the Plague and the Fire • William Harrison Ainsworth


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