substantiation love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The production of material goods.
  • noun The act of substantiating or giving substance to anything; the act of proving; evidence; proof.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of substantiating or proving; evidence; proof.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The act of substantiating
  • noun Something which substantiates; evidence, proof

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the act of validating; finding or testing the truth of something
  • noun additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct

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Examples

  • They took a step towards lifecycle analysis — the kinds of things you need to think about to make a very broad environmental claim, even knowing substantiation is difficult.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • Mylanta Night Time Strength: first time a court adopted the FTC principle, for Lanham Act purposes, that lack of substantiation is equivalent to falsity.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • I will be pleased to review any information which Mr. McMeans might directly provide in substantiation of your claimed SEAL service and to discuss your claimed credentials at length with him.

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

  • A registrant who claims to be a conscientious objector shall offer information in substantiation of his claim on a Special Form for Conscientious Objector (SSS Form No. 150) which, when filed, shall become a part of his Classification Questionnaire (SSS Form No. 100).

    EXECUTIVE ORDER 9988 1948

  • You seem predisposed to accept claims against 3d with little substantiation, which is just as bad.

    Slashdot: Hardware 2010

  • Confusion over substantiation, meaning of claims to consumers.

    Arnold & Porter Webinar on False Advertising Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • Confusion over substantiation, meaning of claims to consumers.

    Archive 2009-10-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • The 157-page report titled “Seeking a Human Spaceflight Program Worthy of a Great Nation,” does not differ from a preliminary report issued in August, but offers "substantiation" for their views, Augustine said.

    Committee Urges Multi-Destination Plan for NASA Human Space Flight | Universe Today 2009

  • GREG SMITH, REPUBLICAN POLLSTER: You hear the little rumors, but there's never been any kind of substantiation to that.

    CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2007 2007

  • But there's never been any kind of substantiation to that.

    CNN Transcript Sep 2, 2007 2007

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