Confirmer

[f. CONFIRM + -ER¹.] One who or that which confirms.

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1595. Shaks., John, III. i. 24. Be these sad signes confirmers of thy words?

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1626. W. Sclater, Expos. 2 Thess. (1629), 204. The giuer of grace … the perfecter, confirmer, stablisher of it.

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1748. Richardson, Clarissa (1811), III. 358, I, and you … must be only hearsay confirmers.

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1878. Trelawny, Shelley, Byron, etc. (1887), 130. The bearer, or rather confirmer, of news.

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