confirm

present singular third person confirms · participle present confirming · participle past confirmed · past confirmed · first person past singular confirmed · archaic present second person singular confirmest · past second person singular confirmed · archaic past second person singular confirmedst · present singular third person confirms · archaic present singular third person confirmeth · past singular third person confirmed · past plural confirmed · past subjunctive confirmed · participle present confirming · participle past confirmed · alternative obsolete confirme

1. To strengthen; to make firm or resolute.

   Synonyms: strengthen

2. transitiveChristianityTo administer the sacrament of confirmation on (someone).

   Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII, was baptized and confirmed at the age of three days.

   1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 35

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   She pulled through with the boy till he was confirmed; but then she told him that she could not feed him any longer; he would have to go out and earn his own bread.

   1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 215

3. To assure the accuracy of previous statements.

   Transport Minister Marples, meanwhile, used arrogant rhetoric and showed his personal contempt for railways when confirming in Parliament that a third of the network was to be closed even before the survey results were known.

   2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 53

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   Despite all the evidence confirming the existence of the Protheans, little is known about their culture and society. From time to time, dig sites will yield new clues, but after 50,000 years of decay, little of value is unearthed.

   2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Protheans: Data Discs Codex entry

   The little green men were clearly professional soldiers by their bearing, carried Russian weapons, and wore Russian combat fatigues, but they had no identifying insignia. Vladimir Putin originally denied they were Russian soldiers; that April, he confirmed they were.

   2019 March 18, Steven Pifer, Five years after Crimea’s illegal annexation, the issue is no closer to resolution, The Center for International Security and Cooperation

   Synonyms: corroborate, roborate

4. transitiveTo approve a proposal or nomination.

   The Senate must confirm federal court appointments.

   Synonyms: roborate

alternative obsolete confirme

1. ManglishSinglishnot comparableFor sure, definitely.

   This is confirm not my handwriting.

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   That ex-lecturer-to-be confirm gone case liao.

   2006, DanielS, soc.culture.singapore (Usenet)