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Confirm   /kənfˈərm/   Listen
Confirm

verb
(past & past part. confrmed; pres. part. confirming)
1.
Establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts.  Synonyms: affirm, corroborate, substantiate, support, sustain.  "The evidence supports the defendant"
2.
Strengthen or make more firm.  Synonym: reassert.
3.
Make more firm.
4.
Support a person for a position.
5.
Administer the rite of confirmation to.



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... negotiation, and to endeavour to bring the treaty with her Majesty to a good conclusion according to the tenour and effect of the commission, powers, and instructions you have already received, and which I shall by any further act ratify and confirm according as the nature ...
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