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| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : suhb-stan-shee-eyt |
| Phonetic Transcription : səbˈstæn ʃiˌeɪt |
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Définition of substantiate
Origin :- 1650s, "to make real, to give substance to," from Modern Latin substantiatus, past participle of substantiare, from Latin substantia (see substance). Meaning "to demonstrate or prove" is attested from 1803. Related: Substantiated; substantiating.
- verb back up a statement, idea
- You have no right to permit them to live longer than to substantiate your theory.
- Extract from : « The Monster Men » by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- And yet something there would surely be by which I could substantiate my story.
- Extract from : « Danger! and Other Stories » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- To the end that he may substantiate his objections, he proposes to examine the prisoner.
- Extract from : « An Outcast » by F. Colburn Adams
- To substantiate this claim of the mosques, a brief digression is necessary.
- Extract from : « Travels in the Far East » by Ellen Mary Hayes Peck
- Now here is a fact which official records go to substantiate.
- Extract from : « Bones » by Edgar Wallace
- Further tests by himself and others he says substantiate these claims.
- Extract from : « The Cauliflower » by A. A. Crozier
- "Perhaps you can substantiate that statement," sneered Cora.
- Extract from : « Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter » by Lawrence L. Lynch
- Quill wanted Mike the Angel to substantiate his own statements to the roboticist.
- Extract from : « Unwise Child » by Gordon Randall Garrett
- Then he would do so for me and bring proofs to substantiate his statements.
- Extract from : « The Millionaire Baby » by Anna Katharine Green
- Complete records to substantiate this statement have not been discovered.
- Extract from : « The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 » by Various
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