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Substantiate

verb

(past & past part. substantiated; pres. part. substantiating)

Establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts. Synonyms: affirm, confirm, corroborate, support, sustain. "The evidence supports the defendant"

Represent in bodily form. Synonyms: body forth, embody, incarnate. "The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist"

Make real or concrete; give reality or substance to. Synonyms: actualise, actualize, realise, realize.

Solidify, firm, or strengthen.

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— Native Life in South Africa, Before and Since • Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje

... express his meaning and to catch that of others, much of what I state respecting Jack may and must appear, if not incredible, at least unintelligible; yet none who ever saw and conversed with him would fail to substantiate it, and they were very many. That zealous missionary, Dr. Wolff, visited my brother's cottage when he and I were both absent, and no one could assist Jack in conversing with him; yet so great was his delight, that he wanted to ...

— Personal Recollections • Charlotte Elizabeth

... work is outside the scope of this paper. Belatedly, his biography is now being written. It can hardly fail to substantiate the contention that during his short life (1832-1882) Holley, who negotiated the purchase of the American rights to Bessemer's process, also adapted his methods to the American scene and laid a substantial part of the foundation for the modern ...

— The Beginnings of Cheap Steel • Philip W. Bishop

... necessary," replied Wiggate, hastily, with a shudder. "Not for me. But my men can substantiate it. That might sound well in Marco. For I believe that your young leader—Panhandle Smith, they call him—is not so black as he has ...

— Valley of Wild Horses • Zane Grey

... that he became a Christian about two years before the American War, those who place his conversion in the year 1777 are compelled to reckon the beginning of the Revolutionary War from the year 1779. Errors are hard things to substantiate, and force men to choose between strange dilemmas. But, in explanation of this absurdity, it is claimed that the Revolutionary War did not make itself manifest in Georgia and South Carolina until about the year 1779, and the Negroes of Georgia and South Carolina, ...

— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 • Various

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