corroboration
nounEtymology From Middle English corroboracioun, borrowed from Late Latin corrōborātiō (“strengthening”).
1
The act of corroborating, strengthening, or confirming; addition of strength; confirmation.
- Fallacious enough doctrine when wielded against one's prejudices, but in corroboration of cherished suspicions not without likelihood.1857, Herman Melville, chapter 23, in The Confidence-Man:
- Social media lighted up with corroborations that lower Manhattan was the meteorological equivalent of the jungles of Borneo.September 16 2016, Jonah Goldberg writing in the Baltimore Sun, Hillary's health is a valid issue
2
That which corroborates.
- Urban Dictionary records at least 66 of the terms found by the present research, but as this dictionary liberally accepts words, definitions, and sample sentences based solely on the say-so of contributors, in the absence of corroboration from other sources the authenticity of some entries must remain dubious.2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 2:
- Derived terms
- corroborational, noncorroboration