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Reassert vs Confirm - What's the difference?

reassert | confirm |

As verbs the difference between reassert and confirm

is that reassert is assert again while confirm is to strengthen; to make firm or resolute.

reassert

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • assert again
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=April 15 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Gareth Bale gave his side hope with a goal shortly afterwards but the real damage was done and Chelsea reasserted their authority to finish easy winners with further goals from Ramires, Frank Lampard and Florent Malouda.}}
  • *2006 , Nikki R. Keddie, Yann Richard, Modern Iran: roots and results of revolution , Yale University Press, page 120
  • *:They were tied to a revived religious class that took advantage of the end of anticlerical despotism to reassert Islamic views and practices and to regain some of their former sociopolitical status.
  • Derived terms

    * reassertion

    Anagrams

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    confirm

    English

    Alternative forms

    * confirme (obsolete)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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:
  • Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII, was baptized and confirmed at the age of three days.
  • To assure the accuracy of previous statements.
  • Antonyms

    * infirm * disconfirm * deny * dispute * contradict * question

    See also

    * verify * corroborate * establish * prove