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Synonyms:
- assurances, approvals, validations, rituals, canons, specimens, testimonies, holidays, demonstrations, establishments, celebrations, illustrations, avowals, certifications, masses, assents, sacrifices, manifestations, oaths, last rites, services, exhibits, affirmations, warranties, evidences, observations, attestations, convocations, remembrances, declarations, depositions, proclamations, communions, authorities, data, assertions, observances, evensongs, ratifications, statements, matrimonies, initiations, marriages, rites, indications, pronouncements, connotations, sacraments, christenings, authorizations, permissions, vespers, ceremonies, pledges, liturgies, promises, acceptances, novenas, verifications, baptisms, missals, sanctions, admissions, determinations, facts, endorsements, revivals, proofs, acknowledgments, submissions, consents, quotations
Examples:
- - Those presents are confirmations, because they are certificates of consent on each side; wherefore, when two parties consent to anything, it is customary to say, " Give me a token;" and of two, who have entered into a marriage engagement, and have secured it by presents, that they are pledged, thus confirmed. - "The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love", Emanuel Swedenborg
- - But it is to be observed that it is at the pleasure of the parties to bestow those presents either before or after the act of betrothing; if before, they are confirmations and testifications of consent to betrothing; if after it, they are also confirmations and testifications of consent to the nuptial tie. - "The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love", Emanuel Swedenborg
- - Rumours of drift- wood, apparently carved with some savage implements; of mammoth reeds, corresponding with Ptolemy's account of those indigenous to India; even of two corpses, cast up on one of the Azores, and presenting an appearance quite unlike that of any race of Europe or Africa; all seem to have come to the willing ears of Columbus, and to have been regarded by him as " confirmations, strong as proofs of holy writ," of the great theory. - "The Life of Columbus", Arthur Helps
