testified
testified is the simple past and past participle of testify.
Meaning of testify
Verb
testify (third-person singular simple present testifies, present participle testifying, simple past and past participle testified)
- To make a declaration, or give evidence, under oath.
- One witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Numbers 35:30
- 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.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 3:11
- To be evidence of.
- Paradoxically, the sharp and unambiguous formulas in which Lenin called for the use of terror and denied the possibility of democracy and freedom testified to the fact that freedom had not yet been completely eradicated.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in...
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