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/səbstˌænʃɪˈeɪʃən/
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[ US /səbˌstænʃiˈeɪʃən, səbˌstæntʃiˈeɪʃən/ ]
[ US /səbˌstænʃiˈeɪʃən, səbˌstæntʃiˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- the act of validating; finding or testing the truth of something
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additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct
fossils provided further confirmation of the evolutionary theory
How To Use substantiation In A Sentence
- Thus, through a process must like Transubstantiation, it'll become simply divine.
- Through transubstantiation, the bread and wine consumed by worshipers become the body and blood of Jesus when a priest, acting on Jesus behalf, speaks the words This is my body and This is my blood over them. Transubstantiation
- And, while I'm at it, I think that it's ridiculous to believe in transubstantiation, that considering the Bible to be the literal word of God reduces that supposedly omnipotent being to a muddle-headed maniac and that the Hindu caste system and Roman Catholic rules against contraception could have been invented by Satan. If Britain decides to ban the burqa I might just start wearing one
- Lucky, for once, to hold a real world object in the purview of your self-substantiation, the speeding taxi, super-fly, armor-plated insect god can only act as mirror in the beading rain, cancelling out any offer of assurance. The Mockingbird Sings
- Now, Luther, it is true, thought that transubstantiation as then taught by the Catholic Church referred to some kind of magic.
- The embrace or denial of the doctrine of transubstantiation was the occasion for both killing and dying.
- The word consubstantiation, however, is not found in the Lutheran symbols, and is rejected by Lutheran theologians if used in the sense of impanation. American Lutheranism Volume 2: The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General Council, United Synod in the South)
- Christians by and large aren't being attacked because Catholics believe in the doctrine of transubstantiation or because some evangelicals believe in the Rapture.
- We have relapsed into disputes about transubstantiation at the very moment when the discovery of the wide prevalence of theophagy as a tribal custom has deprived us of the last excuse for believing that our official religious rites differ in essentials from those of barbarians. The Revolutionists Handbook
- They said they could not send all the substantiation they held about the link between piracy and terrorism because it was confidential.