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American Church Dictionary
• Confirmation
Charles Buck Dictionary
• Confirmation
CARM Theological Dictionary
• Confirmation
Fausset Bible Dictionary
• Confirmation
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Confirm
Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Confirmation
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Confirmation
King James Dictionary
• Confirming
• Confirmed
• Confirmation
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Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Confirmation
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Name, Confirmation
• Grace, Confirmed in
• Confirmed in Grace
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Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Confirm, Confirmation
Webster Dictionary
• Confirming
• Confirmer
• Confirmator
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Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Confirmation
• Confirmation of Bishops
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Confirm; Confirmation
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Confirmation
• Confirmation of a Bishop
The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Confirmation
The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Confirmation, the Rite of
Lexicons
• ܚܰܝܶܠ
• βεβαιόω
• βεβαίωσις
• ἐπιστηρίζω
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• אָמַן , אָמַן
• אָמֵץ
• גָּבַר
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(1):

(v. t.) 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.

(2):

(v. t.) To make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise.

(3):

(v. t.) To administer the rite of confirmation to. See Confirmation, 3.

(4):

(v. t.) To strengthen in judgment or purpose.

(5):

(v. t.) To give new assurance of the truth of; to render certain; to verify; to corroborate; as, to confirm a rumor.