Confirm vs. Success — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Confirm and Success
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Confirm
To support or establish the certainty or validity of; verify
Confirm a rumor.
Success
The accomplishment of an aim or purpose
The president had some success in restoring confidence
Confirm
To reaffirm the establishment of (a reservation or advance arrangement).
Success
The good or bad outcome of an undertaking
The good or ill success of their maritime enterprises
Confirm
To make firmer; strengthen
Working on the campaign confirmed her intention to go into politics.
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Success
The achievement of something desired, planned, or attempted
Attributed their success in business to hard work.
Confirm
To make valid or binding by a formal or legal act; ratify.
Success
The gaining of fame or prosperity
An artist spoiled by success.
Confirm
To administer the religious rite of confirmation to.
Success
The extent of such gain.
Confirm
To strengthen; to make firm or resolute.
Success
One that is successful
The plan was a success.
Confirm
To administer the sacrament of confirmation on (someone).
Success
(Archaic) A result or an outcome.
Confirm
To assure the accuracy of previous statements.
Success
The achievement of one's aim or goal.
His third attempt to pass the entrance exam was a success.
A glowing success
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.
Success
(business) Financial profitability.
Don't let success go to your head.
Confirm
To strengthen in judgment or purpose.
Confirmed, then, I resolveAdam shall share with me in bliss or woe.
Success
One who, or that which, achieves assumed goals.
Scholastically, he was a success.
The new range of toys has been a resounding success.
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.
Success
The fact of getting or achieving wealth, respect, or fame.
She is country music's most recent success.
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.
Success
(obsolete) Something which happens as a consequence; the outcome or result.
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.
Success
Act of succeeding; succession.
Then all the sons of these five brethren reignedBy due success.
Confirm
Establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts;
His story confirmed my doubts
The evidence supports the defendant
Success
That which comes after; hence, consequence, issue, or result, of an endeavor or undertaking, whether good or bad; the outcome of effort.
Men . . . that are like to do that, that is committed to them, and to report back again faithfully the success.
Perplexed and troubled at his bad successThe tempter stood.
Confirm
Strengthen or make more firm;
The witnesses confirmed the victim's account
Success
The favorable or prosperous termination of anything attempted; the attainment of a proposed object; prosperous issue.
Dream of success and happy victory!
Or teach with more success her sonThe vices of the time to shun.
Military successes, above all others, elevate the minds of a people.
Confirm
Make more firm;
Confirm thy soul in self-control!
Success
That which meets with, or one who accomplishes, favorable results, as a play or a player.
Confirm
As of a person to a position;
The Senate confirmed the President's candidate for Secretary of Defense
Success
An event that accomplishes its intended purpose;
Let's call heads a success and tails a failure
The election was a remarkable success for Republicans
Confirm
Administer the rite of confirmation to;
The children were confirmed in their mother's faith
Success
An attainment that is successful;
His success in the marathon was unexpected
His new play was a great success
Success
A state of prosperity or fame;
He is enjoying great success
He does not consider wealth synonymous with success
Success
A person with a record of successes;
His son would never be the achiever that his father was
Only winners need apply
If you want to be a success you have to dress like a success
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