Authenticate vs Corroborate - What's the difference?
authenticate | corroborate |
To render authentic; to give authority to, by the proof, attestation, or formalities required by law, or sufficient to entitle to credit.
To prove authentic; to determine as real and true; as, to authenticate a portrait.
To confirm or support something with additional evidence; to attest or vouch for.
* I. Taylor
To make strong; to strengthen.
* I. Watts
As verbs the difference between authenticate and corroborate
is that authenticate is to render authentic; to give authority to, by the proof, attestation, or formalities required by law, or sufficient to entitle to credit while corroborate is to confirm or support something with additional evidence; to attest or vouch for.authenticate
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(Webster 1913)Verb
(en-verb)References
*corroborate
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(corroborat)- The concurrence of all corroborates the same truth.
- As any limb well and duly exercised, grows stronger, the nerves of the body are corroborated thereby.
