testimony
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English [edit]
Alternative forms [edit]
- testimonie (obsolete)
Etymology [edit]
From Latin testimōnium (“testimony”), from testis (“a witness”); see test.
Pronunciation [edit]
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Noun [edit]
testimony (plural testimonies)
- (law) statements made by a witness in court.
- 2012 August 21, Pilkington, Ed, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, The Guardian:
- The Missouri prosecutors' case against Clemons, based partly on incriminating testimony given by his co-defendants, was that Clemons was part of a group of four youths who accosted the sisters on the Chain of Rocks Bridge one dark night in April 1991.
- 2012 August 21, Pilkington, Ed, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, The Guardian:
- An account of first-hand experience.
- In a church service, a personal account, such as of one's conversion.
Related terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
statement in court
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account of first-hand experience
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External links [edit]
- testimony in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- testimony in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
