confirmation
/ˌkɑn.fəɹˈmeɪ.ʃən/ noun B1- An official indicator that things will happen as planned. · We will send you a written confirmation of your hotel booking.
- A verification that something is true or has happened. · The announcement in the newspaper was a confirmation of my suspicions.
- A ceremony of sealing and conscious acknowledgement of the faith in many Christian churches, typically around the ages of 14 to 18; considered a sacrament in some churches, including Catholicism, but not in most Protestant churches.
- An act whereby something conditional or voidable is made sure and unavoidable, especially the possession of an estate.
Plural confirmations
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Faria gazed fondly on his noble-minded, single-hearted, high-principled young friend, and read in his countenance ample confirmation of the sincerity of his devotion and the loyalty of his purpose.
"A confirmation of what I had already thought."
I had, in fact, reached it before we left Baker Street, and the rest has merely been observation and confirmation."
In confirmation of this, she related the particulars of all the pecuniary transactions in which they had been connected, without actually naming her authority, but stating it to be such as might be relied on.
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