Synonyms:
ratification, confirmation
Meaning: making something valid by formally ratifying or confirming it; "the ratification of the treaty"; "confirmation of the appointment"
Usage examples
The promise he had made was nothing more than a ratification of the old one.
Conditional ratification, with a long string of amendments, was first proposed.
Melancthon Smith then proposed ratification with the right to withdraw if the amendments should not be accepted.
With the support of Smith, this form of ratification was carried by the slender majority of three votes (July 26, 1788).
Nine states, the number necessary to put the Constitution in force, were made up by the ratification of New Hampshire (June 21, 1788).
Hamilton exposed the folly of such a project in a brilliant speech, which led Smith to admit that conditional ratification was an absurdity.
Finally, Samuel Jones, another broad-minded member of the opposition, proposed ratification without conditions, but "in full confidence" that Congress would adopt all needed amendments.
Symptoms of relaxation in some of the leaders authorize a gleam of hope if you do well, but certainly I think not otherwise." Virginia justified his hopes by a majority of 89 against 79 for ratification (June 25, 1788).
Right and duty--the due reward of talent and labor--the outbursts of love and enthusiasm,--all are regulated in advance by an invariable standard; all depend upon number and balance. Equality of conditions is the law of society, and universal solidarity is the ratification of this law.
It was, however, subject to ratification by the people at an election to be held on the fourth Thursday of May. She was in the mean time, like her Southern sisters, the object of Northern hostilities, and, having a common cause with them, properly anticipated the election of May by forming an alliance with the Confederate States, which was ratified by the Convention on the 25th of April.