Corroborate vs Approve - What's the difference?
corroborate | approve |
To confirm or support something with additional evidence; to attest or vouch for.
* I. Taylor
To make strong; to strengthen.
* I. Watts
To sanction officially; to ratify; to confirm.
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, title= To regard as good; to commend; to be pleased with; to think well of.
To make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically.
* (Ralph Waldo Emerson),
* (Thomas Babington Macaulay),
* (George Gordon Byron),
* (Francis Parkman),
To consider or show to be worthy of approbation or acceptance.
* (Henry Rogers),
* (Thomas Babington Macaulay),
* (William Black),
(English Law) To make profit of; to convert to one's own profit;—said especially of waste or common land appropriated by the lord of the manor.
In transitive terms the difference between corroborate and approve
is that corroborate is to make strong; to strengthen while approve is to make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically.corroborate
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Verb
(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.
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Compare prove, approbate.Verb
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- Opportunities to approve worth.
- He had approved himself a great warrior.
- 'T is an old lesson; Time approves it true.
- His accountapproves him a man of thought.
- The first care and concern must be to approve himself to God.
- They had not approved of the deposition of James.
- They approved of the political institutions.
- Note: This word, when it signifies to be pleased with, to think favorably (of''), is often followed by ''of .