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Webster 1913 Edition
Confirmatory
Con-firm′a-to-ry
,Adj.
Serving to confirm; corroborative.
A fact
confirmatory
of the conclusion. I. Taylor.
2.
Pertaining to the rite of confirmation.
Compton.
Webster 1828 Edition
Confirmatory
CONFIRMATORY
,Adj.
1.
That serves to confirm; giving additional strength, force or stability, or additional assurance or evidence.2.
Pertaining to the rite of confirmation.Definition 2024
confirmatory
confirmatory
English
Adjective
confirmatory (comparative more confirmatory, superlative most confirmatory)
- Serving to confirm something.
- 1850, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, Chapter 41,
- I replied, as I usually did whenever I had a chance, that nobody had ever loved anybody else as I loved Dora. Traddles came to my assistance with a confirmatory murmur.
- 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 16,
- "Do you come to me, Master-at-arms, with so foggy a tale? As to Budd, cite me an act or spoken word of his confirmatory of what you in general charge against him. […] "
- 1986, Mark S. Gold and A.L.C. Pottash, Diagnostic and Laboratory Testing in Psychiatry, New York and London: Plenum Medical Book Company, Chapter 3, p. 43,
- The main indication for performing the DST is for the confirmation of suspected major depression. A positive test is excellent confirmatory evidence of the diagnosis.
- 1850, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, Chapter 41,
Translations
serving to confirm something
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