Definitions for testimony

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testimony tes·ti·mo·ny

Spelling: [tes-tuh-moh-nee, or, esp. British, -muh-nee]

IPA: /ˈtɛs təˌmoʊ ni, or, esp. British, -mə ni/

Testimony is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 381 anagrams from letters in testimony (eimnostty).

Definitions for testimony

noun

1. Law. the statement or declaration of a witness under oath or affirmation, usually in court.
2. evidence in support of a fact or statement; proof.
3. open declaration or profession, as of faith.
4. Usually, testimonies. the precepts of God.
5. the Decalogue as inscribed on the two tables of the law, or the ark in which the tables were kept. Ex. 16:34; 25:16.
6. Archaic. a declaration of disapproval; protest.

Origin of testimony

1350-1400; Middle English Latin testimōnium, equivalent to testi(s) witness + -mōnium -mony

Examples for testimony

To what extent was the testimony the grand jury heard corroborated or contradicted by forensic evidence?

testimony to be presently noted will indicate the importance of this statement.

All of their testimony has been accepted by the court, and most of it casts blame squarely on their captain.

I promised to go on, and see Lemuel Bryant, and obtain his testimony.

The grand jury heard an incredible 70 hours of testimony from 60 witnesses over a three month period.

If the witness did in fact witness such a terrible crime, the testimony will survive in the crucible of cross-examination.

Having never tasted it, I can bear no testimony to its quality.

The testimony is damning: the world has not learned its lesson.

The testimony of Pericles, Alcibiades, and Plato, confirmed the truth of his words.

The question of testimony in such matters is the difficult thing.