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To make a declaration, or give evidence, under oath.ambitransitive
- One witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.
- It was only after a decade away from Skipton that I was finally able to garner the courage to return and testify against my abuser.
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To make a statement based on personal knowledge or faith.ambitransitive
- We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.
- [T]he pleaſures of ſenſe have no reliſh vvhere thou [Jesus] irradiateſt and teſtifieſt vvith our conſcience, that vve are the children of God, and have done thy vvill ſincerely, […]
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To be evidence of.ambitransitive
- Paradoxically, the sharp and unambiguous formulas in which Lenin called for the use of terror and denied the possibility of democracy and freedom testified to the fact that freedom had not yet been completely eradicated.
- "Iberian-Sardinian" substrate features have been posited time and time again. These have usually been explained as testifying to a migration from the Iberian Peninsula to Sardinia in prehistoric times.
syn. bear witness