Synonym: check, ratification, substantiation, verification. Similar words: confirm, confirmed, confiscation, configuration, affirmative, formation, information, reformation. Meaning: [‚kɒnfə'meɪʃn] 
n. 1. additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct 2. information that confirms or verifies 3. making something valid by formally ratifying or confirming it 4. a ceremony held in the synagogue (usually at Pentecost) to admit as adult members of the Jewish community young men and women who have successfully completed a course of study in Judaism 5. a sacrament admitting a baptized person to full participation in the church.
n. 1. additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct 2. information that confirms or verifies 3. making something valid by formally ratifying or confirming it 4. a ceremony held in the synagogue (usually at Pentecost) to admit as adult members of the Jewish community young men and women who have successfully completed a course of study in Judaism 5. a sacrament admitting a baptized person to full participation in the church. 
Random good picture Not show
91) I later received confirmation of my new job in a letter indicating the start date.
92) As with any newly proposed risk factor, independent confirmation of our results will be necessary.
93) This is described as the de minimis and serves as confirmation that the vendor will not be troubled by small claims.
94) Thomas won confirmation by a bare two votes, but the case never really closed.
95) This is not, by its nature, the sort of theory that lends itself to easy confirmation.
96) Significant advances will be marked by the confirmation of bold conjectures or the falsification of cautious conjectures.
97) Within 28 days we will forward your confirmation, full details of your holiday and insurance cover.
98) There has been no official confirmation that the documents are genuine,[http://sentencedict.com/confirmation.html] although sources suggest that they are.
99) The little-noticed trench warfare over Senate confirmation of presidential appointees is nothing new.
100) Police are almost certain the torso was Mr Davison but they're awaiting confirmation by a DNA test.
101) A hereditary Forest warden had therefore to seek royal confirmation if he wished to grant away his bailiwick.
102) The political Greens took it as confirmation that industrial society was indeed not sustainable.
103) I later received confirmation of my new job in a letter indicating a start date.
104) Only thus can there be confirmation that the patient can not in fact sustain his own vital functions.
105) Once the testing laboratory receives the samples, it will screen them for drugs and then perform confirmation testing to minimize errors.
106) Regular radiological confirmation of successful transit through the bowel is essential.
107) Another confirmation of the transformation of the press was its proneness for take-over for financial rather than political ends.
108) I find confirmation of this in the fact that in describing Pelops's wing of the gable he ends with Alpheus.
109) Diagnostic difficulties in those cases were related to confusing radiological and endoscopic appearances or failure to obtain histological confirmation of lymphoma.
110) Then, with confirmation from the counts that their political mouthpiece had performed splendidly at the polls, they turned on Portadown.
111) Your agreement to the terms of engagement contained in this letter will be confirmation of our right so to withdraw.
112) Most traders, by the middle of this week, were still waiting for confirmation from maltsters on the accurate nitrogen tests.
113) Lee appeared with her but did not speak in keeping with the traditional practice among nominees awaiting Senate confirmation.
114) She says that it's good to have confirmation that penicillin does work against this form of the disease.
115) A curious fact which might seem at first to constitute an exception to this explanation turns out to provide further confirmation of it.
116) All this contest provided was confirmation that this team is nowhere near what it claimed to be, and fading fast.
117) He saw the knowledge in her face that he was already chairman - all he needed was the official confirmation.
118) The share price was pared by confirmation it will suspend operations of its subsidiary Priority Wireless.
119) Extrapolations are, therefore, best seen as working hypotheses requiring confirmation by studies made on people.
120) Ross's complaint was that astronomy was more in need of confirmation from Scripture than vice-versa.
More similar words: confirm, confirmed, confiscation, configuration, affirmative, formation, information, reformation, misinformation, transformation, confederation, conflagration, confrontation, protestant reformation, non-fiction, nonfiction, articles of confederation, infirmity, on fire, acclimatization, terra firma, animation, summation, cremation, defamation, maturation, acclamation, constitutional convention, proclamation, inflammation.