Testimony

Word TESTIMONY
Character 9
Hyphenation tes ti mo ny
Pronunciations /ˈtɛstɪməni/

Definitions and meanings of "Testimony"

What do we mean by testimony?

A declaration by a witness under oath, as that given before a court or deliberative body. noun

All such declarations, spoken or written, offered in a legal case or deliberative hearing. noun

Evidence in support of a fact or assertion; proof. noun

A public declaration regarding a religious experience. noun

In the Bible, the stone tablets inscribed with the Ten Commandments. noun

The ark containing these tablets. noun

To witness.

Witness; evidence; proof or demonstration of some fact. noun

In law, the statement or declaration of a witness; oral evidence; a solemn statement or declaration under oath or affirmation, made as evidence before a tribunal or an officer for the purposes of evidence; a statement or statements made in proof of something. noun

Tenor of declarations or statements made or witness borne; declaration: as, the testimony of history. noun

The act of bearing witness; open attestation; profession. noun

A declaration or protest. noun

In Scripture: The law of God in general; the Scriptures. noun

Specifically, the two tables of the law (tables of the testimony); the decalogue. noun

Synonyms Deposition, attestation. noun

1, 2, and Proof, etc. See evidence. noun

To witness; to attest; to prove by testimony. transitive verb

A solemn declaration or affirmation made for the purpose of establishing or proving some fact. noun

Statements made by a witness in court.

An account of first-hand experience.

In a church service, a personal account, such as of one's conversion.

Witness; evidence; proof of some fact.

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The word "testimony" in example sentences

The Reformed Dissenters "prefix a _Narrative_ to their testimony," thus rejecting _history_ from _testimony_. ❋ The Reformed Presbytery (N/A)

_good_, such a declaration would not be entitled to a feather's weight as testimony; it is not _testimony_ but _opinion_. ❋ American Anti-Slavery Society (N/A)

In many civil cases, what the two parties swear in testimony is mutually irreconcilable and one or the other is wrong; the answer is to let the jury determine who's not being truthful and let the punishment be they lose the case. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The best way to read this testimony is alongside the other written witness submissions, as taken together they offer a good compendium of the extant expert views in the US on how to see drones and the CIA — and the CIA and its use of force is, at the end of the day, the biggest issue here. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Walter Brueggemann, in the book already referred to, describes the interplay in Hebrew Scripture between what he calls testimony and countertestimony – between the triumphant gratitude that celebrates God's commitment and the agonised doubt and protest that can see only 'absence and silence' and articulates God's 'hiddenness, ambiguity, and negativity' (p. 400). ❋ Unknown (2004)

But I have sufficiently shewn, that this is not the true notion of faith in general, but only of a particular kind of faith; viz. that which is wrought by the argument, which we call testimony or authority. ❋ 1630-1694 (1820)

This testimony is always agreeable to the written word, and is therefore always grounded upon sanctification; for the Spirit in the heart cannot contradict the Spirit in the word. ❋ Unknown (1721)

MB: Yeah, all evidence including court testimony from the founder of the Coca-Cola Company itself points to the fact that there was cocaine in it. ❋ Tara Lohan (2010)

– Joe Medicine Crow-High Bird: The last living Plains Indian war chief and author of seminal works in Native American history is also the last person alive to have received direct oral testimony from a participant in the Battle of the Little Bighorn: his grandfather, a scout for Gen. George Custer. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Jones was referring to testimony that Anthony partied and spent time with a boyfriend while lying to friends and family about Caylee's whereabouts. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The NCI admitted in testimony before the U.S. Congress in 1998, after an investigation by the U.S. ❋ Robert Alvarez (2010)

Levi questions whether even his own testimony is a valid account of the Holocaust, because he believes that the very fact of his survival separates him from the true and common Jewish experience of the Holocaust: elimination through death. ❋ Sharon Dogar (2010)

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