reconfirmable

English

Etymology

reconfirm + -able

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ɹikənˈfɝmə.bl̩/
  • Hyphenation: re‧con‧firm‧a‧ble

Adjective

reconfirmable (comparative more reconfirmable, superlative most reconfirmable)

  1. That can be reconfirmed; that is able to be firmly established.
    • 1987, Robert C. Solomon, From Hegel to Existentialism, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 162:
      Phenomenology must limit itself to reconfirmable descriptions of experience.
    • 2008 December 26, Okwui Enwezor, Nancy Condee, Terry Smith, Antinomies of Art and Culture, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 72:
      The "loss of the aura" is described by Benjamin precisely as a loss of the fixed, constant, and reconfirmable context of an artwork.
    • 2013 November, Barry Gustafson, quoting Ross Armstrong, His Way, Auckland University Press, →ISBN, page 298:
      Ross Armstrong from Gair's North Shore electorate then moved a motion that the positions of leader and deputy leader should be made 'reviewable and reconfirmable at least once in the period between each General Election'.

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