substantiation
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GREG SMITH, REPUBLICAN POLLSTER: You hear the little rumors, but there's never been any kind of substantiation to that.
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- The act of substantiating or giving substance to anything; the act of proving; evidence; proof. This substantiation of shadows. Lowell, Study Windows, p. 382. The fact as claimed will find lasting substantiation. The American, VIII. 379.
- The production of material goods.
[Rare.] To designate those industries in which men engage for the purpose of producing kinds or substances, we need a technical term which will distinguish them from all other industries; for this purpose I use the word substantiation, which must here mean the artificial production of substances for human welfare. I have sought long and far for the best term. J. W. Powell, in An. Rep. Bur. Amer. Ethnol., 1898–[99, p. xxxv.
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- In substantiation of this, I may be permitted to relate an incident which now occurs to me. — The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln
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GREG SMITH, REPUBLICAN POLLSTER: You hear the little rumors, but there's never been any kind of substantiation to that.
— CNN Transcript Sep 2, 2007 -
KURTZ: But that's very different than saying there's no substantiation or evidence that there were actual, intentional atrocities, intentional killing of civilians.
— CNN Transcript Apr 20, 2002 -
But there's never been any kind of substantiation to that.
— CNN Transcript Sep 2, 2007 -
[30 Luther sat disputing with Zwinglius the doctrine of trans-substantiation, and to every argument of his rational opponent answered by laying his sturdy finger on the words, "This is my body."
— The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible
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- from substantiate + -ion.