Reconfirms

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Verifies or confirms something for a second time to ensure accuracy
2. Checks or endorses information once more for added assurance
3. Repeats confirmation of a fact or decision to solidify its validity

Etymology: "Reconfirms" is the third-person singular form of "reconfirm", so it shares its history with the verb it inflects. The verb is formed from the prefix "re-", meaning "again", attached to "confirm", which comes from the Latin "confirmare", meaning "to make firm" or "to strengthen". Latin "confirmare" combined "com-", an intensifying prefix, with "firmare", "to make firm", itself from "firmus", "strong" or "steady". The base verb "confirm" entered English through Old French and Middle English, where it carried the sense of strengthening or establishing something, and in religious use it came to mean a formal ceremony strengthening a person's faith. The added "re-" marks the act of repeating that strengthening: to check something a second time and make it firm once more.

Synonyms: restates, reaffirms, revalidates, reasserts, endorses

Antonyms: negates, disproves, denies, contradicts, disavows