Confirmation (Noun)
Meaning 1
A sacrament admitting a baptized person to full participation in the church.
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Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Meaning 2
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.
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Nouns denoting acts or actions.
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Meaning 3
Additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct; "fossils provided further confirmation of the evolutionary theory".
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Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.
Examples
- The lab results were confirmation of the initial diagnosis made by the doctor.
- Newly discovered documents provided confirmation of the historian's long-held theory.
- The surveillance footage was confirmation of the eyewitness account of the crime.
- The test results were confirmation that the patient had indeed contracted the disease.
- The analysis of the data was confirmation of the correlation between the two variables that had been suggested by earlier research.
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Meaning 4
Information that confirms or verifies.
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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
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Meaning 5
Making something valid by formally ratifying or confirming it; "the ratification of the treaty"; "confirmation of the appointment".
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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.