Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the power of confirming; tending to confirm or establish; confirmatory.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Tending to confirm or establish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective That serves to
confirm
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective serving to support or corroborate
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Examples
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A photo taken of it is not confirmative, looks a bit more like a dog than a lion.
Archive 2008-07-01 2008
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Homing in on the archaeological work that has been done in central-east Tanzania, I present a synthesis of the archaeological and linguistic-derived findings and show that their conclusions correlate in detailed and mutually confirmative ways.
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From his brother Stephen he received a short confirmative nod.
Twin Moons 2010
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Obviously, not all such accounts are reliable, but cryptozoology is an investigative methodology, not a belief system, and will (or should) focus on the most reliable accounts so that future research has a better chance to acquire confirmative evidence.
Archive 2007-04-01 2007
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Generally speaking, I don't see much point in this, unless the purpose is to determine a way in which to actually acquire confirmative evidence of the mystery animal.
Archive 2007-03-01 2007
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Currently, there is abundant confirmative evidence for most of evolutionary theory with the exception of the origin of life, the genetic code, and selected biochemical pathways and virtually no empirical confirmative evidence for ID theory.
Our "innate" tendency to infer purpose in nature" - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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Currently, there is abundant confirmative evidence for most of evolutionary theory with the exception of the origin of life, the genetic code, and selected biochemical pathways
Our "innate" tendency to infer purpose in nature" - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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I gues we KNEW that already about the takeover, but to see it in print is confirmative.
Firedoglake » Gold Bars Spins Back (How Could He Resist?) 2006
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#56 Not really interesting, however very confirmative.
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Currently, there is abundant confirmative evidence for most of evolutionary theory with the exception of the origin of life, the genetic code, and selected biochemical pathways and virtually no empirical confirmative evidence for ID theory.
Our "innate" tendency to infer purpose in nature" - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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