CONFIRMED


Meaning of CONFIRMED in English

-md adjective

Etymology: Middle English confermed chronic, inveterate, from past participle of confermen to confirm

: made firm or established (as by stengthening, accustoming, or settling by long continuance, habitual usage, or determined or expressed preference):

a. : made resolute : encouraged, fortified

southern zealots confirmed by early successes at Bull Run

b. : given to habit so long-continued or to a way of acting or thinking so resolutely adhered to that change is unlikely

confirmed pedestrians like my father and me — George Santayana

c. : marked by long continuance : deeply ingrained : constantly practiced

like all other confirmed habits … easier to obey than to break — Ellen Glasgow

d. : having received the rite of confirmation

Synonyms: see inveterate

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