Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the power of giving strength or additional strength.
- Tending to confirm or establish the truth of something; verifying.
- noun That which corroborates. A medicine that strengthens; a corroborant.
- noun Corroborative testimony.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A medicine that strengthens; a corroborant.
- adjective Tending to strengthen of confirm.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Serving to
corroborate - noun dated a
medical tonic ; acorroborant
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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They will not prosecute on the word of one witness without some kind of corroborative evidence (fair enough, one might say, but what if YOU were the witness, whose word counts for no more that the scumbag who robbed you?)
“Pin your ears back you lot; the Gene Genie speaks” « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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I'm simply saying this, we have a mountain of speculation with the icing on the top is some kind of corroborative statistical argument here.
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It's only what my dad would call corroborative evidence, or proof, "remarked William; whose father, although a blacksmith, was considered one of the best read men in Stanhope, and able to argue with
The Banner Boy Scouts on a Tour, or, The Mystery of Rattlesnake Mountain George A. Warren
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Martin went on into a thorough study of evolution, mastering more and more the subject himself, and being convinced by the corroborative testimony of a thousand independent writers.
Chapter 13 2010
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But what we are doing now is basically tracking whether there is a corroborative and corresponding response from southern-aligned forces, he says.
Satellite Images Show Build-up of Northern Forces in Sudan’s Abyei Region 2011
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I like kindness of stonechats, and when I searched YouTube for corroborative material, the first two videos I watched seem to testify to the kindness of stonechats!
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As mythmakers they play with the idea of rewriting history, constructing artifacts - specimens from antiquity, or from a fantastic future - that become corroborative evidence to a fictional history of their own making.
Kiša Lala: Mythographers: Recalling The Future, Foretelling The Past Kiša Lala 2011
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As mythmakers they play with the idea of rewriting history, constructing artifacts - specimens from antiquity, or from a fantastic future - that become corroborative evidence to a fictional history of their own making.
Kiša Lala: Mythographers: Recalling The Future, Foretelling The Past Kiša Lala 2011
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Not only did the majority of the media overlook this flurry of questionable and occasionally illegal activity on the part of the prosecution, it also seemed perfectly content to perpetuate damning propaganda on the prosecution's behalf, despite a complete lack of corroborative evidence.
Charles Thomson: One of the Most Shameful Episodes In Journalistic History Charles Thomson 2010
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It also turns out that Serres, the author of Nicoll's main corroborative source (the biography of Wilmot) was a forger and fantasist.
"Contested Will" 2010
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