"confirmatory" meaning in English

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      "form": "more confirmatory",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "confirmatorily"
        },
        {
          "word": "disconfirmatory"
        },
        {
          "word": "nonconfirmatory"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1850, Charles Dickens, chapter 41, in David Copperfield:",
          "text": "I replied, as I usually did whenever I had a chance, that nobody had ever loved anybody else as I loved Dora. Traddles came to my assistance with a confirmatory murmur.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1924, Herman Melville, chapter 16, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:",
          "text": "\"Do you come to me, Master-at-arms, with so foggy a tale? As to Budd, cite me an act or spoken word of his confirmatory of what you in general charge against him. […]\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "text": "1986, Mark S. Gold and A.L.C. Pottash, Diagnostic and Laboratory Testing in Psychiatry, New York and London: Plenum Medical Book Company, Chapter 3, p. 43, https://books.google.ca/books?id=KGSxQ_-94J8C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false\nThe main indication for performing the DST is for the confirmation of suspected major depression. A positive test is excellent confirmatory evidence of the diagnosis."
        }
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        "Serving to confirm something."
      ],
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          "confirm",
          "confirm"
        ]
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          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "potvǎrditelen",
          "sense": "serving to confirm something",
          "word": "потвърдителен"
        },
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          "code": "bg",
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          "roman": "utvǎrditelen",
          "sense": "serving to confirm something",
          "word": "утвърдителен"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "serving to confirm something",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "confirmatório"
        },
        {
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "serving to confirm something",
          "word": "cadarnhaol"
        }
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      "ipa": "/kənˈfɜː.mə.tɹi/",
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      "ipa": "/kənˈfɜː.mə.tə.ɹi/",
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kənˈfɜː.mə.tɹi/",
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  "word": "confirmatory"
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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "confirmatorily"
    },
    {
      "word": "disconfirmatory"
    },
    {
      "word": "nonconfirmatory"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "form": "more confirmatory",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "most confirmatory",
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        "superlative"
      ]
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        {
          "ref": "1850, Charles Dickens, chapter 41, in David Copperfield:",
          "text": "I replied, as I usually did whenever I had a chance, that nobody had ever loved anybody else as I loved Dora. Traddles came to my assistance with a confirmatory murmur.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1924, Herman Melville, chapter 16, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:",
          "text": "\"Do you come to me, Master-at-arms, with so foggy a tale? As to Budd, cite me an act or spoken word of his confirmatory of what you in general charge against him. […]\"",
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        },
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          "text": "1986, Mark S. Gold and A.L.C. Pottash, Diagnostic and Laboratory Testing in Psychiatry, New York and London: Plenum Medical Book Company, Chapter 3, p. 43, https://books.google.ca/books?id=KGSxQ_-94J8C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false\nThe main indication for performing the DST is for the confirmation of suspected major depression. A positive test is excellent confirmatory evidence of the diagnosis."
        }
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        "Serving to confirm something."
      ],
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        [
          "confirm",
          "confirm"
        ]
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  ],
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    },
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      "ipa": "/kənˈfɜː.mə.tɹi/",
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        "Received-Pronunciation"
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  "translations": [
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "potvǎrditelen",
      "sense": "serving to confirm something",
      "word": "потвърдителен"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "utvǎrditelen",
      "sense": "serving to confirm something",
      "word": "утвърдителен"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "serving to confirm something",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "confirmatório"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "serving to confirm something",
      "word": "cadarnhaol"
    }
  ],
  "word": "confirmatory"
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