Reconfirmed

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To assert or validate something again after it has already been confirmed, reiterating a prior commitment or decision made earlier in a definitive manner
2. To provide additional corroboration or assurance for a previously accepted conclusion, emphasizing the significance of the earlier finding or statement
3. To verify or affirm the truth or validity of something once more after an initial confirmation

Etymology: "Reconfirmed" is the past tense and past participle of "reconfirm", and it is built from two parts that English already had: the prefix "re-", meaning "again", and "confirm". "Confirm" came into English through Middle English and Old French from the Latin "confirmare", meaning to make firm or strengthen, so the verb as a whole means to make something firm once more after it has already been made firm. The prefix "re-" comes from Latin "re-", which English took in directly and also through French, where it was used in the same sense of repetition. Because it attaches so readily to verbs, English has produced many such pairs, and "reconfirm" follows the same pattern as "reconsider" or "retest": a new layer of checking added on top of an earlier one.

Synonyms: validated, reaffirmed, reestablished, reasserted, renewed