| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
confirmation (ˌkɒnfəˈmeɪʃən) ![]() | |
| —n | |
| 1. | the act of confirming |
| 2. | something that confirms; verification |
| 3. | a rite in several Christian churches that confirms a baptized person in his or her faith and admits him or her to full participation in the church |
| 4. | Compare hypothetico-deductive (in the philosophy of science) the relationship between an observation and the theory which it supposedly renders more probable |