different between corroboration vs corroborate

English

Etymology

From Middle English corroboracioun, borrowed from Late Latin corr?bor?ti? (“strengthening”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

corroboration (countable and uncountable, plural corroborations)

1. The act of corroborating, strengthening, or confirming; addition of strength; confirmation
   • 1857, Herman Melville, The Confidence-Man, Chapter 23:

     Fallacious enough doctrine when wielded against one's prejudices, but in corroboration of cherished suspicions not without likelihood.

   • September 16 2016, Jonah Goldberg writing in the Baltimore Sun, Hillary's health is a valid issue:

     Social media lighted up with corroborations that lower Manhattan was the meteorological equivalent of the jungles of Borneo.

2. That which corroborates.

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French

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Noun

corroboration f (plural corroborations)

1. corroboration, verification, confirmation

English

Etymology

From Latin corr?bor?tus (“strengthened”), perfect passive participle of corr?bor? (“I support, corroborate”), from com- (“together”) + r?bor? (“I strengthen”), from r?bur (“strength”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k????b??e??t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /k????b??e??t/

Verb

corroborate (third-person singular simple present corroborates, present participle corroborating, simple past and past participle corroborated)

1. (transitive) To confirm or support something with additional evidence; to attest or vouch for.
   • I. Taylor

     The concurrence of all corroborates the same truth.

2. (transitive) To make strong; to strengthen.
   • I. Watts

     As any limb well and duly exercised, grows stronger, the nerves of the body are corroborated thereby.

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Further reading

• corroborate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• corroborate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• corroborate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Italian

Verb

corroborate

1. second-person plural present indicative of corroborare
2. second-person plural imperative of corroborare
3. feminine plural of corroborato

Latin

Verb

corr?bor?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of corr?bor?