corroborant

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin corroborans, present participle. See corroborate.

Adjective

corroborant (comparative more corroborant, superlative most corroborant)

1. strengthening; supporting; corroborating

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

Noun

corroborant (plural corroborants)

1. Anything that gives strength or support; a tonic.
   • 1778, William Lewis, The New Dispensatory (page 91)

     The sensible qualities of argentina promise no great virtue of this kind; for to the taste it discovers only a slight roughishness, from whence it may be presumed to be entitled to a place only among the milder corroborants.

   • (Can we date this quote by Southey and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     The brain, with its proper corroborants, especially with sweet odours and with music.

2. A piece of corroborating evidence.
   • 1829, Robert Southey, Poetical Works of Robert Southey (page 473)

     As a scrupulous and faithful antiquary, Morales was accustomed to require evidence, and to investigate it; and for these he could find no other testimony than tradition and antiquity, which, as presumptive proofs, were strong corroborants of faith, but did not suffice of themselves.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “corroborant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Catalan

Verb

corroborant

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French

Verb

corroborant

1. present participle of corroborer

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) corrōborant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of corrōborō