corroboration
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English corroboracioun, borrowed from Late Latin corrōborātiō (“strengthening”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun[edit]
corroboration (countable and uncountable, plural corroborations)
- The act of corroborating, strengthening, or confirming; addition of strength; confirmation
- 1857, Herman Melville, chapter 23, in The Confidence-Man:
- Fallacious enough doctrine when wielded against one's prejudices, but in corroboration of cherished suspicions not without likelihood.
- September 16 2016, Jonah Goldberg writing in the Baltimore Sun, Hillary's health is a valid issue:
- Social media lighted up with corroborations that lower Manhattan was the meteorological equivalent of the jungles of Borneo.
- That which corroborates.
- 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide[1], page 2:
- Urban Dictionary records at least 66 of the terms found by the present research, but as this dictionary liberally accepts words, definitions, and sample sentences based solely on the say-so of contributors, in the absence of corroboration from other sources the authenticity of some entries must remain dubious.
Translations[edit]
the act of corroborating, strengthening, or confirming
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that which corroborates
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French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
Noun[edit]
corroboration f (plural corroborations)
Further reading[edit]
- “corroboration”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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