confirmation
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3.7
- noun
- /ˌkɒnfərˈmeɪʃən/
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confirmación
- It's great to be here to celebrate Jesse's confirmation day.
- confirmation ceremony
- confirmation clothes
- confirmation gifts
And talking about religions, I mean, I was a Catholic brought up that way, baptized, communion, confirmation till I found out what priests do.
- And talking about religions, I mean, I was a Catholic brought up that way, baptized, communion, confirmation till I found out what priests do.
Examples
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Confirmation tradition requires that the child have special, new confirmation clothes (fermingarfot) for the ceremony.
Academic text (1995) -
Many children share this recognition of confirmation as an important life event.
Academic text (1995) -
- About an hour before my confirmation.
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Well, you have to be 12, and you go through membership and confirmation class--
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I was at your confirmation.
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A final reason that children give for going through confirmation is a sense of family obligation.
Academic text (1995) -
Hopeless and angry, she was attending confirmation classes now only because her mother insisted.
Fiction book (1990) -
Many of the ritual requirements for confirmation, including ritual cleaning, now are standard rules of hospitality.
Academic text (1995) -
In the months to come, they will be preparing their initiation into Christian faith by baptism, confirmation, and Eucharist.
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We gathered at the church to witness Emily's confirmation into the faith.
Synonyms
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2.9
A formal event where people meet to show shared beliefs with prayers and rituals
Antonyms
Compounds
- Formal
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6.8
A meeting where the Senate questions a president's nominee before voting
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Confirmation comes from the Latin confirmare, made from con- 'together' and firmare 'to make firm', the same root as the English word firm. So a religious confirmation is a ceremony that 'strengthens' a person's faith or makes their membership official.