Crossword-Solution: SUBSTANTIATE 12 letters, 28 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

This fact suggested to the ape-man that he might surely be in a passageway leading to the outer world, for the bolts, barring progress from the opposite side, tended to substantiate this hypothesis, unless it were merely a prison to which it led.

When asked to substantiate the testimony of Lyle that he and Randy had found `suspicious' SmurFFs, Ian told a slightly different story.

Two clans laid claim to it—neither could substantiate the claim, and the roads lay desert, or were only visited by men in arms.

Scolding himself for having allowed his feelings to become personal, he displaced his hurt by pouring himself more intensely into his work, in an all-out effort to substantiate his side of the contention that had cost him his only friend.

Just after the middle of the nineteenth century the last stage of theological defence was evidently reached--the same which is seen in the history of almost every science after it has successfully fought its way through the theological period--the declaration which we have already seen foreshadowed by Wiseman, that the scientific discoveries in question are nothing new, but have really always been known and held by the Church, and that they simply substantiate the position taken by the Church.