CORROBORATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does corroboration mean? 

• CORROBORATION (noun)
  The noun CORROBORATION has 1 sense:

1. confirmation that some fact or statement is true through the use of documentary evidence

  Familiarity information: CORROBORATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORROBORATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Confirmation that some fact or statement is true through the use of documentary evidence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

certification; corroboration; documentation

Hypernyms ("corroboration" is a kind of...):

confirmation (information that confirms or verifies)

Derivation:

corroborate (establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts)

corroborate (give evidence for)

corroborate (support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm)

 Context examples 

Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And yet the lady’s story was complete, the maid’s corroboration was sufficient, the detail was fairly exact.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The corroboration of these wondrous tales was really of the most slender description.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have frequently endeavoured to find decisive corroboration of those suspicions, but without effect.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

At one time she had almost resolved on applying to him, but the idea was checked by the awkwardness of the application, and at length wholly banished by the conviction that Mr. Darcy would never have hazarded such a proposal, if he had not been well assured of his cousin's corroboration.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Here at last was tangible corroboration.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The lady’s story certainly seems to be corroborated, if it needed corroboration, by every detail which we see before us.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Affection, said Miss Lavinia, glancing at her sister for corroboration, which she gave in the form of a little nod to every clause, mature affection, homage, devotion, does not easily express itself.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I confess that the sight of it consoled me, for it was really the first direct corroboration, slight as it was, of the truth of his story.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)