Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Serving to confirm; giving additional strength, force, or stability, or additional assurance or evidence.
- Pertaining to the rite of confirmation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Serving to confirm; corroborative.
- adjective Pertaining to the rite of confirmation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective That which
confirms , as one's word.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective serving to support or corroborate
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Examples
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Of course, rituals can be contrived both to reduce contingency [so-called confirmatory rites] and to create it [rites of resistance]; the connections here are multiple and complex.
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The deal is also subject to "confirmatory" due diligence by
NYT > Home Page 2010
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As Dermot has speculated, the government could introduce the mayors first, given them a trial run, then hold 'confirmatory' referendums to see if people in places like Manchester want to keep them or not.
MEN Media Blogs 2010
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"confirmatory" testing - these are tests that the team make to confirm that they've developed a feature correctly, to confirm that they haven't broken an existing feature, or to confirm that a previously-discovered bug has not been reintroduced.
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When your fingers touch it, confirmatory signals flow up the nerves.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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The Center for Science in the Public Interest published a statement this week saying further testing is necessary: “Because the new analyses seem so improbable, confirmatory studies using the best analytical method need to be done before the alarm bells ring too loudly.”
Soda drinkers beware: You may be consuming more fructose than you thought 2010
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Dick gave a confirmatory nod to Oh Joy, and said to
CHAPTER XXIII 2010
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Westinghouse said it "will continue to work with the NRC as part of the normal licensing process to address the few remaining confirmatory items, none of which are safety significant and several of which are self-identified by Westinghouse," according to a statement.
U.S. Nuclear Agency Has 'Technical Issues' With Toshiba Reactor Cassandra Sweet 2011
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To begin with, there is more than one type of test, a very sensitive (read: many false positives) “screening test” and a somewhat less sensitive (but still prone to false positives due to the nature of the manufacture of the HIV tests in general, see below for more detail) “confirmatory test”.
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Alistair Darling has not done his party any favours by publishing a memoir that adds further confirmatory detail about the profound policy disputes and poisonous relationships which consumed the last government.
Labour must learn from their history or be doomed to repeat it | Andrew Rawnsley 2011
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