confirm

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Meaning

To make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise.

To strengthen in judgment or purpose.

To give new assurance of the truth of; to render certain; to verify; to corroborate; as, to confirm a rumor.

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.

To administer the rite of confirmation to. See Confirmation, 3.

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. Lawrence Durrell

Can officially confirm that the way to a man's heart these days is not through beauty, food, sex, or alluringness of character, but merely the ability to seem not very interested in him. Helen Fielding

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it. Alexander Cockburn

We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them. Claude Bernard

If you apologize for something that isn't your fault in the first place, you, in effect, confirm their belief that it is your fault. Erica Jong

The same past data can confirm a theory and its exact opposite! If you survive until tomorrow, it could mean that either a) you are more likely to be immortal or b) that you are closer to death. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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