confirming

Adjective

Synonyms: positive collateral confirmative confirmatory corroborative corroboratory substantiating substantiative validating validatory verificatory verifying

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (2)

indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen“a positive pregnancy test”Synonyms: positive
serving to support or corroborate“collateral evidence”Synonyms: collateral confirmative confirmatory corroborative corroboratory substantiating substantiative validating validatory verificatory verifying

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Confirm \Con*firm"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Confrmed; p. pr. & vb. n. Confirming.] [OE. confermen, confirmen, OF. confermer, F. confirmer, fr. L. confirmare; con- + firmare to make firm, fr. firmus firm. See Firm.]

1.To make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise. [1913 Webster]

Confirm the crown to me and to mine heirs.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law.— Ps. cv. 10.[1913 Webster]

2.To strengthen in judgment or purpose. [1913 Webster]

Confirmed, then, I resolve Adam shall share with me in bliss or woe.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

3.To give new assurance of the truth of; to render certain; to verify; to corroborate; as, to confirm a rumor. [1913 Webster]

Your eyes shall witness and confirm my tale.— Pope.[1913 Webster]

These likelihoods confirm her flight.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

4.To render valid by formal assent; to complete by a necessary sanction; to ratify; as, to confirm the appoinment of an official; the Senate confirms a treaty. [1913 Webster]

That treaty so prejudicial ought to have been remitted rather than confimed.— Swift.[1913 Webster]

5.(Eccl.) To administer the rite of confirmation to. See Confirmation, 3. [1913 Webster]

Those which are thus confirmed are thereby supposed to be fit for admission to the sacrament.— Hammond.

Syn: To strengthen; corroborate; substantiate; establish; fix; ratify; settle; verify; assure. [1913 Webster]