Meaning

A witness who provides evidence or testimony based on auditory observations. [from 16th c.].

Definitions by Sense

1. A witness who provides evidence or testimony based on auditory observations. [from 16th c.]
2. (transitive) To hear an event or incident directly.

Example Sentences

But the Poor, as they cannot provide Persons to educate their Children; so from the Way in which they live together in poor Families, a Child must be an Eye and Ear-witness of the worst Part of his Parents Talk and Behaviour.

My object being to ascertain the truth, and the truth only, on receiving your last letter I immediately wrote to the Rev. H. Seymour, author of the "Pilgrimage to Rome," although I have no acquaintance with him–and I now give you the evidence of this eye and ear-witness, as copied from his letter, dated Bath, Feb. 6th, 1851, now lying before me.

Our cubehouse still rocks as earwitness to the thunder of his arafatas but we hear also through successive ages that shebby choruysh of unkalified muzzlenimiissilehims that would blackguardise the whitestone ever hurtleturtled out of heaven.

In December 1996 almost the entire front page of a daily newspaper was devoted to the report of a court case involving earwitness testimony.

Compared with eyewitness testimony very little research has been conducted on the accuracy of ‘earwitness’ testimony, the identification of an individual by voice.

Word Forms

• earwitnesses
• earwitnessing
• earwitnessed

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When Should You Use Ear witness?

Use ear witness when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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