Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A declaration by a witness under oath, as that given before a court or deliberative body.
- n. All such declarations, spoken or written, offered in a legal case or deliberative hearing.
- n. Evidence in support of a fact or assertion; proof.
- n. A public declaration regarding a religious experience.
- n. The stone tablets inscribed with the Law of Moses.
- n. The ark containing these tablets.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Witness; evidence; proof or demonstration of some fact.
- n. 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.
- n. Tenor of declarations or statements made or witness borne; declaration: as, the testimony of history.
- n. The act of bearing witness; open attestation; profession.
- n. A declaration or protest.
- n. In Scripture: The law of God in general; the Scriptures.
- n. Specifically, the two tables of the law (tables of the testimony); the decalogue.
- n. Synonyms Deposition, attestation.
- n. 1, 2, and Proof, etc. See evidence.
- To witness.
Wiktionary
- n. law statements made by a witness in court.
- n. An account of first-hand experience.
- n. In a church service, a personal account, such as of one's conversion.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A solemn declaration or affirmation made for the purpose of establishing or proving some fact.
- n. Affirmation; declaration.
- n. Open attestation; profession.
- n. Witness; evidence; proof of some fact.
- n. (Jewish Antiq.) The two tables of the law.
- n. Hence, the whole divine revelation; the sacre� Scriptures.
- v. obsolete To witness; to attest; to prove by testimony.
WordNet 3.0
- n. something that serves as evidence
- n. an assertion offering firsthand authentication of a fact
- n. a solemn statement made under oath
Etymologies
- From Latin testimōnium ("testimony"), from testis ("a witness"); see test. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old French testimonie, from Latin testimōnium, from testis, witness; see testify. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The Reformed Dissenters "prefix a _Narrative_ to their testimony," thus rejecting _history_ from _testimony_.”
“_good_, such a declaration would not be entitled to a feather's weight as testimony; it is not _testimony_ but _opinion_.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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).”
“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.”
The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 09.
“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.”
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
“– 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.”
“The NCI admitted in testimony before the U.S. Congress in 1998, after an investigation by the U.S.”
“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.”
The Huffington Post: Tara Lohan: The Coke Machine: New Book Reveals the Dirty Truth Behind Coca-Cola
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘testimony’.
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POL - scandalous (single words only)
cadre, bribery, bashing, backhander, clash, crony, coercion, coterie, chicanery, baksheesh, acolyte, backlash and 256 more...
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PHIL - vocabulary of thinking
philosophy, Socratic, dialogue, philosopher, Athenian, philosophical, politic, Greek, method, death, ancient, believe and 243 more...
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POL - scandalous (words and collocati...
Words and collocations associated with political scandal
blow the whistle, boo, cronyism and rigging, democratic deficit, denigrate, dirty linen, fiasco, finger pointing a..., graft, hidden account, hush money, illicit financing... and 578 more...
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RELI - words with Biblical connotations
Words in the Bible evoking biblical stories or with special spiritual meaning. Proper names have been reduced to the minimum.
ark, judgement, holy, saint, baptism, spirit, love, eternal, altar, balsam, covenant, flood and 1115 more...
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JURI - courtroom speak
Legal glossary with special focus on courtroom vocabulary
accused, acquittal, ADA, adjournment, adjudication, affidavit, affirmed, aggravated range, aggravating factors, allegation, alleged, answer and 794 more...
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RELI - words you immediately associat...
advent, almighty, altar, anoint, apostle, archangel, ark, Balaam, baptism, baptist, baptize, begotten and 341 more...
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Imbible Code ✞
Christian word branding; common English word-associatives connected to Bible terminology or scripture.
I also have a general Bible-word list.god, father, son, trinity, sacrament, knowledge, serpent, flood, evil, good, spirit, revelation and 118 more...
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CSI-Wordnik
Parodies CSI series with words that might be part of crime scene investigation
autopsy, biohazard, bloodstained, cadaver, contamination, coroner, evidence, fingerprint, forensic, morgue, pathology, rigor mortis and 10 more...
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Mony Mony
Here she comes now sayin' Mony Mony...
alimony, parsimony, antimony, acrimony, ceremony, harmony, hegemony, lemony, matrimony, sanctimony, simony, testimony and 25 more...
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Nouny
calumny, parsimony, gluttony, alimony, sanctimony, harmony, miscegeny, telephony, colony, antimony, larceny, mahogany and 26 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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The Last Werewolf
This novel by Glen Duncan, aside from being a ripping yarn and beautifully written, is just littered with words that I had to look up and discover that often his use of the word not only fitted per...
gurns, bok, chimney breast, dichotomy, Platonic form, filthy, Platonic Form, mathematics, BAM, skirls, clarity, blundering and 298 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Bible names
noah, almighty, cain, abel, father, mother, israel, king, sanctuary, spirit, psalm, blessing and 236 more...
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INTERP - VOCABULARY
The vocabulary of conference interpreting. I commend this list to those who want to know more about the profession and to those who wish to organize their knowledge about the profession. To aspirin...
retour language, A-language, B-language, C-language, relay language, take sy on relay, language booth, booth meeting, mic, mike, mission, freelance interpr... and 2086 more...
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Your Mony's Worth
acrimony, alimony, ceremony, egrimony, harmony, inharmony, lemony, matrimony, palimony, parsimony, patrimony, prestimony and 4 more...
Tweets
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Louises You've held on to language because without language there's no morality.' 'Ah yes, I spend a lot of time considering morality, when I'm not slaughtering people and gobbling them all up.' 'I'm talking about testimony. I'm talking about bearing witness to yourself. What is this - what are the journals - if not the compulsion to tell the truth of what you are? And what is the compulsion to tellnthe truth if not a moral compulsion? It's perfectly Kantian.' From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan. Mar 3, 2012
qroqqa Also one of the most dubious etymologies, with the unwarranted assumption that testis "testicle" is a metaphorical use of testis "witness". Feb 6, 2009
tbtabby Comes from the ancient Roman practice of placing a hand on one's testicles while making an oath.
Best. Etymology. EVER. Feb 6, 2009