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Definition of Confirmation
1. Noun. Additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct. "Fossils provided further confirmation of the evolutionary theory"
Generic synonyms: Cogent Evidence, Proof
Specialized synonyms: Bed Check, Crosscheck, Odd-even Check, Parity Check, Redundancy Check, Checksum
Derivative terms: Check, Check, Confirm, Confirm, Substantiate, Verify
2. Noun. Information that confirms or verifies.
Specialized synonyms: Reenforcement, Reinforcement, Certification, Corroboration, Documentation
Derivative terms: Confirm, Confirm
3. Noun. Making something valid by formally ratifying or confirming it. "Confirmation of the appointment"
4. Noun. 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.
5. Noun. A sacrament admitting a baptized person to full participation in the church.
Definition of Confirmation
1. n. The act of confirming or strengthening; the act of establishing, ratifying, or sanctioning; as, the confirmation of an appointment.
Definition of Confirmation
1. Noun. An official indicator that things will happen as planned ¹
2. Noun. Verification that something has happened ¹
3. Noun. A sacrament of sealing and strengthening in many Christian Churches, often including a ceremony of anointing ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Confirmation
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Confirmation
Literary usage of Confirmation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Reformation of the Church of England by Gilbert Burnet, Edward Nares (1843)
"Sacrament», as the words Sacramental ; and withal used) to be Confirmation ; and
that and the Patient reo-iving th0 Sacrament; ..."
2. The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, Or, A Commentary ...by Edward Coke, Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Charles Butler, Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Nottingham by Edward Coke, Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Charles Butler, Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Nottingham (1853)
"Where a confirmation to the husband and wife seised in the right of hit wife for
life, »hall enure to the husband in remainder for his life, ..."
3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"They held, and the patent follows their decision, that the boundary of the bay,
which the decree of confirmation had fixed as that of ordinary high-water ..."
4. The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, Or, A Commentary ...by Edward Coke, Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Charles Butler, Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Nottingham by Edward Coke, Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Charles Butler, Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Nottingham (1853)
"Of Confirmation. Sect. 515. A DEEDE of confirmation is commonly in this forme,
... A confirmation is a conveyance of an estate or right in esse, ..."
5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"Confirmation is a rite which in the Roman Catholic and Greek churches is considered
a sacrament ... In the Middle Ages opposition to confirmation had been, ..."
6. Sermons by Thomas Arnold (1874)
"ADDRESS BEFORE Confirmation. ALTHOUGH it is very true that where great stress is
laid upon any one particular crisis in our spiritual life, ..."
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