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corroboration en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English corroboracioun, borrowed from Late Latin corrōborātiō (“strengthening”).

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of corroborating, strengthening, or confirming; addition of strength; confirmation.
   • Social media lighted up with corroborations that lower Manhattan was the meteorological equivalent of the jungles of Borneo. September 16 2016, Jonah Goldberg writing in the Baltimore Sun, Hillary's health is a valid issue
   • Fallacious enough doctrine when wielded against one's prejudices, but in corroboration of cherished suspicions not without likelihood. 1857, Herman Melville, chapter 23, in The Confidence-Man:
2. (countable, uncountable) That which corroborates.
   • 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. 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 2:

Forms

Deriveds

corroborational · noncorroboration

Translations (22)

bg подкрепа (that which corroborates) · es corroboración (the act of corroborating, strengthening, or confirming) · nl bekrachtiging (the act of corroborating, strengthening, or confirming) · gv co-niartaghey (the act of corroborating, strengthening, or confirming) · gv co-niartey (the act of corroborating, strengthening, or confirming) · pt corroboração (the act of corroborating, strengthening, or confirming) · mr दुजोरा (the act of corroborating, strengthening, or confirming) · gl corroboración (that which corroborates) · bg потвърждаване (the act of corroborating, strengthening, or confirming) · pt corroboração (that which corroborates) · el επίρρωση (the act of corroborating, strengthening, or confirming) · ru подтвержде́ние (that which corroborates) · el επίρρωση (that which corroborates) · el επιβεβαίωση (that which corroborates) · ru подтвержде́ние (the act of corroborating, strengthening, or confirming) · tr teyit (the act of corroborating, strengthening, or confirming) · el επιβεβαίωση (the act of corroborating, strengthening, or confirming) · gl corroboración (the act of corroborating, strengthening, or confirming) · bg потвърждение (that which corroborates) · mr दुजोरा (that which corroborates) · ota تأیید (the act of corroborating, strengthening, or confirming) · ru подкрепле́ние (the act of corroborating, strengthening, or confirming)