confirmation - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'confirmation' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Confirmation

[ n.]

- The act of confirming or strengthening; the act of establishing, ratifying, or sanctioning; as, the confirmation of an appointment.
- That which confirms; that which gives new strength or assurance; as to a statement or belief; additional evidence; proof; convincing testimony.
- A rite supplemental to baptism, by which a person is admitted, through the laying on of the hands of a bishop, to the full privileges of the church, as in the Roman Catholic, the Episcopal Church, etc.
- A conveyance by which a voidable estate is made sure and not voidable, or by which a particular estate is increased; a contract, express or implied, by which a person makes that firm and binding which was before voidable.

Meaning of 'confirmation' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . confirmation

[ n]

Meaning (1):
- making something valid by formally ratifying or confirming it

Example in sentence:

confirmation of the appointment;
the ratification of the treaty

Meaning (2):
- additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct

Example in sentence:

fossils provided further confirmation of the evolutionary theory

Nearby Words:

con con- conacre conarium conation conative conatus concamerate concameration concatenate

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Confirmation bias
Confirmation bias, which the tendency to favor information that supports one’s initial hypotheses and supports alternative hypotheses.

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