2. To strengthen in judgment or purpose.

Confirmed, then, I resolve

Adam shall share with me in bliss or woe.

Milton.

3. To give new assurance of the truth of; to render certain; to verify; to corroborate; as, to confirm a rumor.

Your eyes shall witness and confirm my tale.

Pope.

These likelihoods confirm her flight.

Shak.

4. To render valid by formal assent; to complete by a necessary sanction; to ratify; as, to confirm the appoinment of an official; the Senate confirms a treaty.

That treaty so prejudicial ought to have been remitted rather than confimed.

Swift.

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