confirmation
Other forms: confirmations
A confirmation provides proof that something is true. An example might be when you receive confirmation that your flight will be on time, or you find out that something you thought might have happened actually did occur.
Confirmation is verification or final proof of something. In the church, confirmation is a rite in which a person if awarded full acceptance into — i.e., confirmed in — the religion, usually presented in a ceremony attended by family and friends. You can see how that ties in with the more general definition of substantiation of a fact or assertion. Confirmation is an obvious derivative of the verb confirm.
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information that confirms or verifiestypes:certification, corroboration, documentationconfirmation that some fact or statement is true through the use of documentary evidencetype of:
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additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct“fossils provided further confirmation of the evolutionary theory”synonyms: check, substantiation, verificationtypes:bed checka check that everyone is in bed by the time they should becrosscheckan instance of confirming something by considering information from several sourcesodd-even check, parity check, redundancy checka system of checking for errors in computer functioningchecksuma digit representing the sum of the digits in an instance of digital data; used to check whether errors have occurred in transmission or storagetype of:
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making something valid by formally ratifying or confirming it“confirmation of the appointment”synonyms: ratificationtype of:agreementthe verbal act of agreeing
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a sacrament admitting a baptized person to full participation in the churchtype of:sacramenta formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction
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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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Vocabulary lists containing confirmation
Xiomara hides her poetry from her religious family, but when she joins a slam poetry club, she must decide whether or not she's ready for her voice to be heard. Learn these words from the acclaimed novel-in-verse by slam poet Elizabeth Acevedo.
