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Literary notes about corroborate (AI summary)

The term "corroborate" in literature is often employed to underscore the act of confirming or reinforcing a claim or observation with additional evidence. In narrative contexts, it can describe a character’s action or demeanor that lends credibility to a particular assertion—for instance, when a character’s conduct subtly supports their version of events [1], or when physical evidence is marshaled to validate a claim [2], [3]. In more analytical or philosophical texts, the word regularly functions to fortify logical arguments by referring to verification of theories or hypotheses [4], [5], and it even finds use in dramatizing testimonial or circumstantial support within historical and forensic narratives [6], [7]. Overall, "corroborate" is a versatile term that enriches literary discourse by bridging abstract ideas and concrete facts through the process of validation [8], [9].
  1. There on her knees, trembling seized her, and she hugged herself against it, leaning forward to corroborate her gaze.
    — from The Best Short Stories of 1917, and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
  2. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong piece of evidence to corroborate your view.
    — from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
  3. Then Badrul Beg had the iron trunks brought forward to corroborate him, that he might see with his own eyes the stones of the celestial slingers.
    — from Tales From Jókai by Mór Jókai
  4. The results of the action corroborate or refute the idea from which it flowed.
    — from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James
  5. It must lean on its own vitality; to sanction reason there is only reason, and to corroborate sense there is nothing but sense.
    — from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana
  6. There are many physical as well as moral facts which corroborate this opinion, and some few that would seem to weigh against it.
    — from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper
  7. It is a large supposition; for discreet inquiry among servants and others has failed to corroborate it in any way.
    — from The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle
  8. These views strongly corroborate our paper on chaos .]
    — from The Mosaic History of the Creation of the World Illustrated by Discoveries and Experiments Derived from the Present Enlightened State of Science; With Reflections, Intended to Promote Vital and Practical Religion by Thomas Wood
  9. — I CORROBORATE Mr. DICK, AND CHOOSE A PROFESSION CHAPTER 24.
    — from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

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