Meaning of witness | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Attestation of a fact or event; testimony
2. A Jehovah's Witness.
3. Attestation of a fact or event; testimony.
   uncountable
4. One who sees or has personal knowledge of something
5. One who sees or has personal knowledge of something.
   countable
6. Someone called to give evidence in a court.
   countable
7. Someone called to give evidence in a court
8. One who is called upon to witness an event or action, such as a wedding or the signing of a document
9. One who is called upon to witness an event or action, such as a wedding or the signing of a document.
   countable
10. Something that serves as evidence; a sign or token
11. Something that serves as evidence; a sign or token.
    countable
12. A particular version of a text (seen as providing testimony of archetype or other earlier version)
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“She can bear witness, since she was there at the time.”

“May we, with the warrant of womanhood and the witness of a good conscience, pursue him with any further revenge?”

“We have as much witness from heaven as we need.”

“On another corner, stands an old style tenement building, whose dirty grey facade bears as much witness to the volume of exhaust fumes from millions of passing cars as it does to the age of the dwelling.”

“Nor do the formation and articulation of such knowledge themselves bear much witness to Geist.”

“Fleeing is giving witness, and those that plead against it are loath to give so much witness”

“Ob. 16 can show that every nation will get at least this much witness”

“As a witness to the event, I can confirm that he really said that.”

“[…]thyself art witness— I am betrothed.”

“Upon my looking round, I was a witness to appearances which filled me with melancholy and regret.”

“The witness for the prosecution did not seem very credible.”

“From the evidence of witnesses and of the recorded passing times, including the time at which the circuit breakers were tripped when the wires were brought down, the train was travelling at a speed of not less than 70 m.p.h.”

“The bridesmaid and best man at a wedding typically serve as the witnesses.”

“Laban said to Jacob, […] This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness.”

“Yet there are extremely few, if any, cases of preserved autographs, and textual witnesses (manuscripts) rather distant in time from the creation of the texts are the norm.”

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