confirm

CEFRA2

/kənˈfɜːm/

verb

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In plain English

01
verb
To show that something is true or correct.
02
verb
Extra detail
To administer the sacrament of confirmation on (someone).

Examples

Can you please confirm the receipt of this note?
Please confirm your acceptance of this offer in writing.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5

Also pronounced

/kənˈfɜ(r)m/

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

To assure the accuracy of previous statements.
To strengthen; to make firm or resolute.
To approve a proposal or nomination.

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In context

We will confirm your order as follows.
The Senate must confirm federal court appointments.
This is confirm not my handwriting.

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Please blank your flight reservation before the scheduled departure time.

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Citations

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She pulled through with the boy till he was confirmed; but then she told him that she could not feed him any longer; he would have to go out and earn his own bread.
1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 215
Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII, was baptized and confirmed at the age of three days.
1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 35
Despite all the evidence confirming the existence of the Protheans, little is known about their culture and society. From time to time, dig sites will yield new clues, but after 50,000 years of decay, little of value is unearthed.
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Protheans: Data Discs Codex entry
The little green men were clearly professional soldiers by their bearing, carried Russian weapons, and wore Russian combat fatigues, but they had no identifying insignia. Vladimir Putin originally denied they were Russian soldiers; that April, he confirmed they were.
2019 March 18, Steven Pifer, Five years after Crimea’s illegal annexation, the issue is no closer to resolution, The Center for International Security and Cooperation
Transport Minister Marples, meanwhile, used arrogant rhetoric and showed his personal contempt for railways when confirming in Parliament that a third of the network was to be closed even before the survey results were known.
2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 53

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Origin

verb

From Middle English confirmen, confermen, from Old French confermer, from Latin cōnfirmāre (“to make firm, strengthen, establish”), from con- (“together”) + firmāre (“to make firm”), from firmus (“firm”).

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verb

Please blank your flight reservation before the scheduled departure time.