testimony

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  1. noun A declaration by a witness under oath, as that given before a court or deliberative body.
  2. noun All such declarations, spoken or written, offered in a legal case or deliberative hearing.
  3. noun Evidence in support of a fact or assertion; proof.
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  • Prosecutors argued that a nurse-patient relationship didn't exist when Clancy spoke to her and, therefore, her testimony is admissable. —  Postbulletin.com Local News
  • Attached to my testimony is a list of 99 companies in which I hold investments through my participation in three venture-capital funds. —  Slugger O'Toole
  • Confident and self-reliant, he had marshaled his array of witnesses, and their testimony was a consistent recital of the events relating to the murder and the various circumstances relating thereto. —  Bucholz and the Detectives
  • In vain Rimrock's lawyers orated and thundered or artfully framed up their long questions; it took days to do it, but when the testimony was all in it was apparent that Ike Bray's claim would hold. —  Rimrock Jones
  • Fully incensed by this high-handed procedure he determined to place his inalienable rights in the hands of a lawyer the first thing after the early morning meeting The taking of his testimony was a proceeding held in a small side apartment before an elderly crotchety underling who pretended to understand English and French, but whose thick-wittedness seemed monumental. —  Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life
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  1. Middle English, from Old French testimonie, from Latin testimōnium, from testis, witness; see testify.

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  1. = French temoin = Provencal testimoni = Spanish testimonio = Portuguese testimunho = Italian testimone, testimonio, from Latin testimonium, testimony, from testis, a witness: see test.
  2. from testimony, n.
 

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