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# confirmation

«confirmation» in Mova's school dictionary: **a message or proof that something is true or definitely…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (confirmation, a confirmation, confirmations)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Confirmation is a message or proof that something is true or definitely happening, like a booking confirmation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confirmation/#m1)

2) (church) Confirmation is a Christian ceremony in which a young person or adult, usually already baptised, confirms their faith for themselves, often with a bishop laying hands on them and praying. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confirmation/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life, adults get confirmation emails for orders, tickets and appointments. In science, an experiment that matches the prediction gives confirmation. In church life, Catholic children often have confirmation at around ten to fourteen, choosing a saint's name; Anglicans and Lutherans also confirm young people. Phrases: booking confirmation, get confirmation, confirmation of, confirmation class, be confirmed.

### examples

- We got an email confirmation for the cinema tickets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confirmation/#x1)
- The teacher waited for confirmation that the trip was on. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confirmation/#x2)
- My sister's confirmation is at the cathedral with the bishop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confirmation/#x3)
- At confirmation, Ciara chose the name Brigid. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confirmation/#x4)
- The test result gave confirmation of our guess. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confirmation/#x5)
- Confirmation classes are on Wednesday evenings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confirmation/#x6)
- The clothes were ready, and the candidate for confirmation was ready. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confirmation/#x7)

### note

Countable or uncountable. Verb confirm (confirmed). In the church sense people say "be confirmed": "I was confirmed when I was eleven."

### In the corpora

- [In confirmation a person confirms for themselves the promises made at their baptism, often with a bishop laying hands on them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/24-baptism-communion-and-confirmation/19/)
- [Remembering the times that fit your idea and forgetting the times that don't is called confirmation bias.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions/13/)
- [Washing a car can't change the weather; remembering only the times that match what you believe is called confirmation bias.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/180-correlation-is-not-cause-ice-cream-and-sunburn/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «confirmation» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confirmation/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.