Meaning of bear witness | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To deliver a testimony, especially as witness
2. To prove, demonstrate

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Examples

“He hesitated to bear witness against them in court for fear of reprisals by the felons' accomplices”

“The dubious state of the whole society bears witness of years of misrule”

“In stretches, this new Apes is an audacious, idiosyncratic piece of blockbuster filmmaking: a mix of Pixar, revenge Westerns, and Apocalypse Now, told almost entirely from the point-of-view of a posse of gun-toting, super-evolved apes as they roam the snowy Sierra Nevada foothills of the post-apocalyptic future, accompanied by a mute human girl, and bear witness to the strange cruelty of man.”

“Nor, having married coach and bogie design successfully, does it follow that good riding will ensue, whatever the track carrying it—as the performance of B.R. standard coaches on flat-bottom, concrete-sleepered track bears witness.”

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