Confirmatory

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Serving to confirm; giving additional strength, force, or stability, or additional assurance or evidence.
  • Pertaining to the rite of confirmation.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Serving to confirm; corroborative.
  • adjective. Pertaining to the rite of confirmation.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. That which confirms, as one's word.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. serving to support or corroborate
  • Word Usage
    "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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