Confirm vs. Reconfirm — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Confirm and Reconfirm
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Definitions
Confirm
To support or establish the certainty or validity of; verify
Confirm a rumor.
Reconfirm
Confirm again
This has been reconfirmed by a recent Higher Labour Court decision
Berghofer resigned but was reconfirmed as mayor of Dresden shortly afterwards
Confirm
To reaffirm the establishment of (a reservation or advance arrangement).
Reconfirm
To confirm again, especially to establish or support more firmly
Reconfirmed the reservations.
Confirm
To make firmer; strengthen
Working on the campaign confirmed her intention to go into politics.
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Reconfirm
To confirm again; to establish more firmly
Confirm
To make valid or binding by a formal or legal act; ratify.
Reconfirm
To advise an airline of your intention to use a reservation, or risk cancellation.
Confirm
To administer the religious rite of confirmation to.
Reconfirm
To confirm anew.
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Confirm
To strengthen; to make firm or resolute.
Reconfirm
Confirm again;
You must reconfirm your flight reservations
Confirm
To administer the sacrament of confirmation on (someone).
Confirm
To assure the accuracy of previous statements.
Confirm
To make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise.
Confirm the crown to me and to mine heirs.
And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law.
Confirm
To strengthen in judgment or purpose.
Confirmed, then, I resolveAdam shall share with me in bliss or woe.
Confirm
To give new assurance of the truth of; to render certain; to verify; to corroborate; as, to confirm a rumor.
Your eyes shall witness and confirm my tale.
These likelihoods confirm her flight.
Confirm
To render valid by formal assent; to complete by a necessary sanction; to ratify; as, to confirm the appoinment of an official; the Senate confirms a treaty.
That treaty so prejudicial ought to have been remitted rather than confimed.
Confirm
To administer the rite of confirmation to. See Confirmation, 3.
Those which are thus confirmed are thereby supposed to be fit for admission to the sacrament.
Confirm
Establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts;
His story confirmed my doubts
The evidence supports the defendant
Confirm
Strengthen or make more firm;
The witnesses confirmed the victim's account
Confirm
Make more firm;
Confirm thy soul in self-control!
Confirm
As of a person to a position;
The Senate confirmed the President's candidate for Secretary of Defense
Confirm
Administer the rite of confirmation to;
The children were confirmed in their mother's faith
