corroborant

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Adjective

corroborant

1. strengthening; supporting; corroborating

Noun

corroborant (plural corroborants)

1. Anything that gives strength or support; a tonic.
   • 1778, William Lewis, The New Dispensatory (page 91)

     The sensible qualities of argentina promise no great virtue of this kind; for to the taste it discovers only a slight roughishness, from whence it may be presumed to be entitled to a place only among the milder corroborants.

   • The brain, with its proper corroborants, especially with sweet odours and with music.

2. A piece of corroborating evidence.
   • 1829, Robert Southey, Poetical Works of Robert Southey (page 473)

     As a scrupulous and faithful antiquary, Morales was accustomed to require evidence, and to investigate it; and for these he could find no other testimony than tradition and antiquity, which, as presumptive proofs, were strong corroborants of faith, but did not suffice of themselves.

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