confirmation

confirmation is a 12-letter English word with 9 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of confirming or strengthening; the act of establishing, ratifying, or sanctioning; as, the confirmation of an appointment. Face value is 19 in Scrabble and 23 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

12 letters · Scrabble 19 · Words With Friends 23 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act of confirming or strengthening; the act of establishing, ratifying, or sanctioning; as, the confirmation of an appointment.
2. noun. That which confirms; that which gives new strength or assurance; as to a statement or belief; additional evidence; proof; convincing testimony.
3. noun. A rite supplemental to baptism, by which a person is admitted, through the laying on of the hands of a bishop, to the full privileges of the church, as in the Roman Catholic, the Episcopal Church, etc.
4. noun. A conveyance by which a voidable estate is made sure and not voidable, or by which a particular estate is increased; a contract, express or implied, by which a person makes that firm and binding which was before voidable.
5. noun. a sacrament admitting a baptized person to full participation in the church
6. noun. 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
7. noun. additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct

   "fossils provided further confirmation of the evolutionary theory"

   Synonyms: check, substantiation, verification

8. noun. information that confirms or verifies
9. noun. making something valid by formally ratifying or confirming it

   "the ratification of the treaty"

   "confirmation of the appointment"

   Synonyms: ratification

Synonyms

check, substantiation, verification, ratification

Common word forms

confirmations, confirmational

Words from these letters

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