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✅ To prove true 🗳️ To officially approve 💪 To make stronger ⛪ To admit to church
to confirm

to confirm

8 6.3
To admit someone as a full member of a church by a special religious ceremony
  • verb
  • /kənˈfɜrm/
translation icon : confirmar
  • During the service, the pastor will confirm all the candidates, welcoming them as new members of the congregation.

You did go and get your, your Holy Communion and you were confirmed.

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Examples

  • And you wound up confirming him in the Catholic faith.

  • In the spring, Solvejg was confirmed in the Lutheran state church.

    Academic text (1995)

  • Well, uh, she was confirmed at over 40 years old.

    Dolphin Tale 2 (2014)

  • You must go and confirm this Mark upon this person...

    Amy (2013)

  • Everyone else here is confirmed, and everyone would know the child is not.

    Academic text (1995)

  • But he'll be fine; he will be confirmed eventually if he still wants to.

    Blog text (34)

  • My younger sister was confirmed here in Reykjavik in 1931.

    Academic text (1995)

  • Leave a comment. Tomorrow, Leah will be baptized, confirmed, and make her first communion.

    Blog text (14)

  • The bishop will confirm Sarah at the upcoming church ceremony, marking her full membership.

  • On Sunday, they gathered to confirm the young adults, celebrating their commitment to the Church.

Antonyms

to exclude
338 3.0

To keep someone or something out so they are not part of something

to disallow
  • Formal
16 3.9

To refuse to allow something, usually by an official rule

Surface Forms

confirm infinitive
confirmed past
confirmed past participle
confirming present participle
confirms third person singular

Morphology

confirm = firm (semi-transparent) = con + firm

The religious sense ('administer the rite of confirmation') historically means 'make firm in faith', but the specialized ritual meaning may not be obvious to learners from the components alone.

Etymology

The word confirm comes from firm 'firm', and in the church it means to strengthen a person's faith or make their belief firm, which is why the rite is called confirmation.