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Substantiating

adjective
1.
Serving to support or corroborate.  Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying.


Substantiate

verb
(past & past part. substantiated; pres. part. substantiating)
1.
Establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts.  Synonyms: affirm, confirm, corroborate, support, sustain.  "The evidence supports the defendant"
2.
Represent in bodily form.  Synonyms: body forth, embody, incarnate.  "The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist"
3.
Make real or concrete; give reality or substance to.  Synonyms: actualise, actualize, realise, realize.
4.
Solidify, firm, or strengthen.





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"Substantiating" Quotes from Famous Books



... the eye, the ear, the touch, etc.; the imitative power, voluntary and automatic; the imagination, or shaping and modifying power; the fancy, or the aggregative and associative power; the understanding, or the regulative, substantiating and realizing power; the speculative reason, vis theoretica et scientifica, or the power by which we produce or aim to produce unity, necessity, and universality in all our knowledge by means of principles a priori [56]; the will, or practical reason; the faculty ...
— Biographia Literaria • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
... brutish sense, But not a manly reason," and to argue that the blame lay not with "religious Guise," but with those who had played false to "faith and true religion." So astonishing is the dramatist's change of front that, but for the complete lack of substantiating evidence, one would infer that, like Dryden in the interval between Religio Laici and The Hind and Panther, he had joined the Church of Rome. In any case the change is not due to the influence of Grimeston's volume, ...
— Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois • George Chapman


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