testimony
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Etymology edit
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Inherited from Middle English testimonie, from Old French testimonie, from Latin testimōnium (“testimony”).
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtɛstɪmoʊni/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtɛstɪməni/
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Noun edit
testimony (countable and uncountable, plural testimonies)
- (law) Statements made by a witness in court.
- Synonym: deposition
- 2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian[1]:
- 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.
- An account of first-hand experience.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- [Thou] for the testimony of truth, hast borne / Universal reproach.
- (religion) In a church service (or religious service), a personal account, such as one's conversion, testimony of faith, or life testimony.
- Witness; evidence; proof of some fact.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Mark 6:11:
- When ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them.
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statement in court
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account of first-hand experience
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personal account of conversion
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witness; evidence; proof of some fact
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Further reading edit
- “testimony”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “testimony”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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