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Confirm vs. Reconfirm — What's the Difference?

Confirm vs. Reconfirm — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Confirm and Reconfirm

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Confirm

To support or establish the certainty or validity of; verify
Confirm a rumor.

Reconfirm

Confirm again
This has been reconfirmed by a recent Higher Labour Court decision
Berghofer resigned but was reconfirmed as mayor of Dresden shortly afterwards

Confirm

To reaffirm the establishment of (a reservation or advance arrangement).

Reconfirm

To confirm again, especially to establish or support more firmly
Reconfirmed the reservations.

Confirm

To make firmer; strengthen
Working on the campaign confirmed her intention to go into politics.
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Reconfirm

To confirm again; to establish more firmly

Confirm

To make valid or binding by a formal or legal act; ratify.

Reconfirm

To advise an airline of your intention to use a reservation, or risk cancellation.

Confirm

To administer the religious rite of confirmation to.

Reconfirm

To confirm anew.

Confirm

To strengthen; to make firm or resolute.

Reconfirm

Confirm again;
You must reconfirm your flight reservations

Confirm

To administer the sacrament of confirmation on (someone).

Confirm

To assure the accuracy of previous statements.

Confirm

To make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise.
Confirm the crown to me and to mine heirs.
And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law.

Confirm

To strengthen in judgment or purpose.
Confirmed, then, I resolveAdam shall share with me in bliss or woe.

Confirm

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.
These likelihoods confirm her flight.

Confirm

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.

Confirm

To administer the rite of confirmation to. See Confirmation, 3.
Those which are thus confirmed are thereby supposed to be fit for admission to the sacrament.

Confirm

Establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts;
His story confirmed my doubts
The evidence supports the defendant

Confirm

Strengthen or make more firm;
The witnesses confirmed the victim's account

Confirm

Make more firm;
Confirm thy soul in self-control!

Confirm

As of a person to a position;
The Senate confirmed the President's candidate for Secretary of Defense

Confirm

Administer the rite of confirmation to;
The children were confirmed in their mother's faith

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