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Definition of Confirming
1. Adjective. Indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen. "A positive pregnancy test"
Category relationships: Medical Specialty, Medicine
Similar to: Gram-positive
Antonyms: Negative
2. Adjective. Serving to support or corroborate. "Collateral evidence"
Similar to: Supportive
Derivative terms: Collateral, Confirm, Confirm, Confirm, Corroborate, Corroborate, Corroborate, Corroborate, Corroborate, Corroborate, Substantiate, Validate, Validate, Verify
Definition of Confirming
1. Verb. (present participle of confirm) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Confirming
1. confirm [v] - See also: confirm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Confirming
Literary usage of Confirming
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1889)
"It was not an appeal simply from an order refusing to set aside the decree of
confirmation, but one that involved the integrity of the order confirming the ..."
2. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Peter Augustin Daniel (1874)
"... and Tables of Metrical Tests, confirming Mr Hickson's results. Series II. 1.
A Parallel-Text Edition of the first two Quartos of Romeo and Juliet, ..."
3. The Novels of Jane Austen by Jane Austen (1892)
"It was upon the behaviour of these veiy"slight acquaintance that all her present
happiness depended; and while Mrs Morland was successfully confirming her ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"... at its extreme extension southward in Alabama, thus confirming the probability
that there was laud elevation in that direction during Devonian time. ..."
5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, John Scott Eldon (1821)
"August 1817, confirming the certificate, BURNS. and declaring all the ships in
question to be part of the .1820. which they founded their opinion. ..."
6. The Rise of the Dutch Republic: A History by John Lothrop Motley (1868)
"Contemporaneously, a new edict was published at Brussels (29th April, 1549),
confirming and re-enacting all previous decrees in their most severe provisions ..."
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