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Confirmatory

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. That which confirms, as one's word.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Serving to confirm; corroborative.

adj. Pertaining to the rite of confirmation.

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.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. 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."

Equivalent

supportive

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

corroborative corroboratory corroborant supportive

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

in-theater corroborative biochem biometric microscopical