Confirms

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Establishes that something is true or correct by providing evidence or proof ; supports the validity or authority of a decision or statement
2. Proves or verifies the accuracy of a fact or claim ; endorses or ratifies a resolution, making it official or accepted
3. Affirms or corroborates that information or an assertion is accurate ; approves and strengthens the legitimacy or acceptance of an action or declaration

Etymology: Confirm comes from Latin "confirmare," meaning to make firm or strengthen, built from "com-" (an intensifying prefix, here meaning "together" or "thoroughly") and "firmare," to make firm, from "firmus," firm or steady. The core idea is physical solidity: a thing made firm, its parts fixed together. That literal sense of strengthening carried over into the abstract. Once something was made firm, it could be made certain, so "confirmare" came to mean to establish a fact or to ratify an agreement. English borrowed the word through Old French "confermer," and it was used in both senses from the medieval period onward. One specific use survives in religious life. In the Christian church, confirmation is the rite that strengthens a believer's commitment, and the word's sense of making firm lies at its heart. The verb's main modern meaning of checking that something is true grew naturally from that older idea of making something solid.

Synonyms: verifies, validates

Antonyms: denies, disproves