testify

present (v1)

testify

past (v2)

testified

past participle (v3)

testified

present participle

testifying

3rd person singular

testifies

1. 1.To make a declaration, or give evidence, under oath.

   • One witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.
   • It was only after a decade away from Skipton that I was finally able to garner the courage to return and testify against my abuser.

2. 2.To make a statement based on personal knowledge or faith.

   • We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.

3. 3.To be evidence of.

   • "Iberian-Sardinian" substrate features have been posited time and time again. These have usually been explained as testifying to a migration from the Iberian Peninsula to Sardinia in prehistoric times.

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