Witness

/ˈwɪt.nɪs/ · noun

Meaning

(uncountable) Attestation of a fact or event; testimony..

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable) Attestation of a fact or event; testimony.
2. (countable) One who sees or has personal knowledge of something.
3. (countable, law) Someone called to give evidence in a court.
4. (countable) One who is called upon to witness an event or action, such as a wedding or the signing of a document.
5. (countable) Something that serves as evidence; a sign or token.
6. (textual criticism) A particular version of a text (seen as providing testimony of archetype or other earlier version)
7. (countable, databases) An additional database server instance used in failover scenarios to decide whether the mirror should take over.
8. (transitive) To furnish proof of, to show.

Example Sentences

She can bear witness, since she was there at the time.

May we, with the warrant of womanhood and the witness of a good conscience, pursue him with any further revenge?

We have as much witness from heaven as we need.

On another corner, stands an old style tenement building, whose dirty grey facade bears as much witness to the volume of exhaust fumes from millions of passing cars as it does to the age of the dwelling.

Nor do the formation and articulation of such knowledge themselves bear much witness to Geist.

Fleeing is giving witness, and those that plead against it are loath to give so much witness

Ob. 16 can show that every nation will get at least this much witness

As a witness to the event, I can confirm that he really said that.

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Word Forms

• witnesses
• witnesse
• witneße
• witnessing
• witnessed

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