Definitions for attests

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attests at·test

Spelling: [uh-test]

IPA: /əˈtɛst/

Attests is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 88 anagrams from letters in attests (aessttt).

Definitions for attests

noun

1. Archaic. witness; testimony; attestation.

verb (used with object)

1. to bear witness to; certify; declare to be correct, true, or genuine; declare the truth of, in words or writing, especially affirm in an official capacity:
2. to give proof or evidence of; manifest:
3. to put on oath.

verb (used without object)

1. to testify or bear witness (often followed by to):

Origin of attests

1590-1600; (Middle French attester) Latin attestārī to bear witness to, equivalent to at- at- + testārī (test(is) a witness + -ā- thematic vowel + -rī infinitive suffix

Examples for attests

But come, let us attest the gods; for they will be the best witnesses and observers of agreements.

Survivors of Ebola, as thousands in West Africa can attest to, can—and often do—make a full recovery.

All attest that in Dreamland there is no such thing as repose.

Anyone familiar with the events of four years ago can attest to that.

No family is perfect and certainly Jeb can attest to that, but a rough national campaign means old baggage gets repacked.

Her father can attest to that, having seen her in action in a Brooklyn courtroom.

The sympathy was largely genuine, as Hartley could attest, but it bored the invalid.

And thus it long remained, as if to attest the true level of Holbein's genius.

And as any resident of Florida, Colorado, or Ohio can attest, there was no shortage of ads or direct mail.

Nor is there any year of his life when his work does not attest a clear eye and a firm hand.