Meaning of Earwitness | Babel Free

Definitions

A witness who provides evidence or testimony based on auditory observations.

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Examples

“But the Poor, as they cannot provide⟳ Persons to educate⟳ their Children; so from the Way in which they live⟳ together in poor Families, a Child must be an Eye and Ear-witness of the worst Part of his Parents Talk⟳ and Behaviour.”

“My object being to ascertain the truth, and the truth only, on receiving your last⟳ letter I immediately wrote to the Rev. H. Seymour, author of the "Pilgrimage to Rome," although I have⟳ no acquaintance with him–and I now give⟳ you the evidence of this eye and ear-witness, as copied from his letter, dated Bath, Feb. 6th, 1851, now lying before me.”

“Our cubehouse still rocks as earwitness to the thunder of his arafatas but we hear⟳ also through successive ages that shebby choruysh of unkalified muzzlenimiissilehims that would blackguardise the whitestone ever hurtleturtled out of heaven.”

“In December 1996 almost the entire front page of a daily newspaper was devoted to the report⟳ of a court case involving earwitness testimony.”

“Compared with eyewitness testimony very little research⟳ has been conducted on the accuracy of ‘earwitness’ testimony, the identification of an individual by voice.”

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