Literary notes about Substantiate (AI summary)
In literature, “substantiate” is employed to indicate the act of providing evidence or proof to support a claim, theory, or statement. Its usage ranges from establishing the authenticity of political or legal assertions—where speakers demand sufficient evidence to substantiate charges or claims [1, 2, 3]—to affirming historical or theological arguments, as when texts call for corroboration to substantiate doctrines or ancient narratives [4, 5]. It is also invoked in academic discussions to highlight the necessity of verifying hypotheses or observations through concrete proof [6, 7]. Across these diverse contexts, the term underscores the critical role that verifiable evidence plays in lending credibility and grounding to arguments presented in literary works.
- And for your benefit I'll tell you what you can easily substantiate; I forced him into this deal with me.
— from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White - Before these courts three or four witnesses are required to substantiate any criminal charge.
— from The History of Java, v. 1-2 by Raffles, Thomas Stamford, Sir - The impeachment of Oxford was after a while dropped; in fact, it was difficult to substantiate the charge of treason against him.
— from A History of England, Period III. Constitutional Monarchy by J. Franck (James Franck) Bright - His posthumous work, "Biblia Veritatis" was written to substantiate the claim that the Targums prove the doctrine of the Trinity.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein - It is first represented as a single act, recently detected, and which men of character were prepared to substantiate: adulterii etiam crimen accedit.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - Recent counts of stars by Chapman and Melotte of Greenwich tend to substantiate this estimate.
— from Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by David P. (David Peck) Todd - “How far, if at all, do we substantiate the Kantian hypothesis of the transcendental?”
— from Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy by Stephen Leacock
