Reconfirming

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To assert or validate previously confirmed information anew while enhancing assurance of its correctness
2. To verify or establish the accuracy of something once more to ensure its validity
3. To repeat the act of confirming details to reinforce certainty

Etymology: "Reconfirming" is the present participle of "reconfirm," which is simply the prefix "re-" attached to "confirm." The "re-" is Latin in origin, meaning "again" or "back," and it was used productively to form new verbs in English. Here the sense is literal: a confirmation repeated a second time. "Confirm" itself traces through Old French "confermer" back to Latin "confirmare," meaning "to make firm" or "to strengthen," from "com-" (intensifying, "together") and "firmare" (from "firmus," "firm" or "steady"). So the verb began as a word about making something solid and secure, and only later came to mean establishing that something is true. Each use of "reconfirm" thus repeats that act of making something firm once more.

Synonyms: reaffirming, validating, reasserting, reestablishing, double-checking

Antonyms: disconfirming, denying, refuting, rejecting, contradicting