Definition of Confirming

1. Adjective. Indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen. "A positive pregnancy test"

Exact synonyms: Positive
Category relationships: Medical Specialty, Medicine
Similar to: Gram-positive
Antonyms: Negative

2. Adjective. Serving to support or corroborate. "Collateral evidence"

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

confirmation names
confirmational
confirmations
confirmative
confirmatory
confirme
confirmed
confirmed bachelor
confirmedly
confirmedness
confirmednesses
confirmee
confirmees
confirmer
confirmers
confirming (current term)
confirmingly
confirmities
confirms
confiscable
confiscatable
confiscate
confiscated
confiscates
confiscating
confiscation
confiscations
confiscator
confiscators
confiscatory

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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