Both Uses of
corroborate
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- Nicholas nodded his head from time to time, as it corroborated the particulars he had already gleaned; but he fixed his eyes upon the fire, and did not look round once.†
Chpt 33 *
- The certificates were regularly signed as extracts from the parish books, the first letter had a genuine appearance of having been written and preserved for some years, the handwriting of the second tallied with it exactly, (making proper allowance for its having been written by a person in extremity,) and there were several other corroboratory scraps of entries and memoranda which it was equally difficult to question.†
Chpt 45
Definition:
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(corroborate) to support an opinion -- typically with additional evidence or testimony