'Confirming' definitions:
Definition of 'confirming'
From: WordNet
adjective
Indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen; "a positive pregnancy test" [syn: positive, confirming] [ant: disconfirming, negative]
adjective
Serving to support or corroborate; "collateral evidence" [syn: collateral, confirmative, confirming, confirmatory, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying]
Definition of 'Confirming'
From: 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]