Attestation

Quick meaning: Attestation is a noun meaning A thing that serves to bear witness, confirm, or authenticate; validation, verification, documentation.

Meaning

A thing that serves to bear witness, confirm, or authenticate; validation, verification, documentation.

More Meanings

1. A confirmation or authentication.
2. (linguistics, of a language, word, word form, or word meaning) An appearance in print or otherwise recorded on a permanent medium.
3. (business, finance) The process, performed by accountants or auditors, of providing independent opinion on published financial and other business records of an enterprise, public agency, or other organization.

Example Sentences

The eastern-most attestation of Sl skola in the meaning of synagogue appears to be in Smolensk Russian.

In the first edition this is generally chronological, i.e. following the earliest date of attestation for each sense

A historical dictionary cannot do this though it cannot also neglect this aspect because the attestation of a rare meaning is bound to be very limited.

For each word, the date of its first attestation in the English language, as documented in the Oxford English Dictionary, and its frequency of occurrence in the British National Corpus are given.

Word Forms

• attestations

Synonyms for attestation

Depending on context, synonyms include affidavit, deposition.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include affidavit, deposition, certification, verification, declaration, testimonial.

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