confirmatory

comparative more confirmatory · superlative most confirmatory

1. Serving to confirm something.

   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.

   1850, Charles Dickens, chapter 41, in David Copperfield

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   "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. […]"

   1924, Herman Melville, chapter 16, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.

   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, https://books.google.ca/books?id=KGSxQ_-94J8C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false 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.