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CONFIRMATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A sacrament admitting a baptized person to full participation in the church
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("confirmation" is a kind of...):
sacrament (a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A ceremony held in the synagogue (usually at Pentecost) to admit as adult members of the Jewish community young men and women who have successfully completed a course of study in Judaism
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("confirmation" is a kind of...):
religious ceremony; religious ritual (a ceremony having religious meaning)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct
Example:
fossils provided further confirmation of the evolutionary theory
Synonyms:
check; confirmation; substantiation; verification
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("confirmation" is a kind of...):
cogent evidence; proof (any factual evidence that helps to establish the truth of something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "confirmation"):
bed check (a check that everyone is in bed by the time they should be)
crosscheck (an instance of confirming something by considering information from several sources)
odd-even check; parity check; redundancy check (a system of checking for errors in computer functioning)
checksum (a digit representing the sum of the digits in an instance of digital data; used to check whether errors have occurred in transmission or storage)
Derivation:
confirm (establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts)
confirm (strengthen or make more firm)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Information that confirms or verifies
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("confirmation" is a kind of...):
info; information (a message received and understood)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "confirmation"):
reenforcement; reinforcement (information that makes more forcible or convincing)
certification; corroboration; documentation (confirmation that some fact or statement is true through the use of documentary evidence)
Derivation:
confirm (establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts)
confirm (strengthen or make more firm)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Making something valid by formally ratifying or confirming it
Example:
confirmation of the appointment
Synonyms:
confirmation; ratification
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("confirmation" is a kind of...):
agreement (the verbal act of agreeing)
Derivation:
confirm (support a person for a position)
Context examples:
The resulting partially single-stranded telomere can adopt a circular confirmation.
(C-Circle, NCI Thesaurus)
"Cal-ee-forn-ee-yeh," he mumbled twice and thrice, listening intently to the sound of the syllables as they fell from his lips. He nodded his head in confirmation.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Even Challenger was affected by the consideration that his enemies would never stand confuted if the confirmation of his statements should never reach those who had doubted them.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Her mind was divided between two ideas—her own former conversations with him about Miss Fairfax; and poor Harriet;—and for some time she could only exclaim, and require confirmation, repeated confirmation.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
“Your coming to Longbourn, to see me and my family,” said Elizabeth coolly, “will be rather a confirmation of it; if, indeed, such a report is in existence.”
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Shake hands in confirmation of the word.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
This is all in confirmation, rather, of what we used to hear and believe.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
NASA's Cassini spacecraft is on final approach to Saturn, following confirmation by mission navigators that it is on course to dive into the planet's atmosphere on Friday, Sept. 15.
(Cassini Spacecraft Makes Its Final Approach to Saturn, NASA)
She applied to Mr. Allen for confirmation of her hopes, but Mr. Allen, not having his own skies and barometer about him, declined giving any absolute promise of sunshine.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Complete response of multiple myeloma or plasma cell leukemia is characterized by negative immunofixation on serum and urine samples, and disappearance of any soft tissue plasmacytomas, and 5% or less plasma cells in the bone marrow (confirmation with repeat bone marrow biopsy not needed).
(Complete Response of Multiple Myeloma or Plasma Cell Leukemia, NCI Thesaurus)
