confirmatory

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kənˈfɜː.mə.tə.ɹi/, /kənˈfɜː.mə.tɹi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kənˈfɝ.məˌtɔɹ.i/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /kənˈfɜː.mə.tə.ɹi/, /kənˈfɜː.mə.tɹi/

Adjective

confirmatory (comparative more confirmatory, superlative most confirmatory)

1. Serving to confirm something.
   • 1850, Charles Dickens, chapter 41, in David Copperfield‎^[1]:

     I replied, as I usually did whenever I had a chance, that nobody had ever loved anybody else as I loved Dora. Traddles came to my assistance with a confirmatory murmur.

   • 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 16, in Billy Budd‎^[2], London: Constable & Co.:

     "Do you come to me, Master-at-arms, with so foggy a tale? As to Budd, cite me an act or spoken word of his confirmatory of what you in general charge against him. […] "

   • 1986, Mark S. Gold and A.L.C. Pottash, Diagnostic and Laboratory Testing in Psychiatry, New York and London: Plenum Medical Book Company, Chapter 3, p. 43, [3]

     The main indication for performing the DST is for the confirmation of suspected major depression. A positive test is excellent confirmatory evidence of the diagnosis.

Derived terms

• confirmatorily
• disconfirmatory
• nonconfirmatory

 

Translations

serving to confirm something

• Bulgarian: потвърдителен (bg) (potvǎrditelen), утвърдителен (bg) (utvǎrditelen)
• Portuguese: confirmatório m
• Welsh: cadarnhaol (cy)