Confirmest vs Confirmes - What's the difference?
confirmest | confirmes |
(archaic) (confirm)
To strengthen; to make firm or resolute.
(Christianity) To administer the sacrament of confirmation on (someone).
* 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 35:
To assure the accuracy of previous statements.
(confirme)
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* 1588? , , “A Reproofe of Certeine Schismatical Persons & Their Doctrine Touching the Hearing & Preaching of the Word of God” in Cartwrightiana , ed. Albert Peel and Leland Henry Carlson (1951, published for the Sir Halley Stewart Trust by Allen and Unwin),
As verbs the difference between confirmest and confirmes
is that confirmest is (archaic) (confirm) while confirmes is .confirmest
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(head)confirm
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* confirme (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII, was baptized and confirmed at the age of three days.
Antonyms
* infirm * disconfirm * deny * dispute * contradict * questionSee also
* verify * corroborate * establish * proveExternal links
* * * English reporting verbsconfirmes
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(head)confirme
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(confirm)page 228
- If anie do dislike the superstitious & needles cærimonies in ordination & yet also acknowledg that the Byshops may call, authorise, trie, confirme , & warrant by testimonie the sufficiencie of ministers / what greuous synne is it.