Definition of "testimony" []

• A declaration by a witness under oath, as that given before a court or deliberative body. (noun)
• All such declarations, spoken or written, offered in a legal case or deliberative hearing. (noun)
• Evidence in support of a fact or assertion; proof. (noun)
• A public declaration regarding a religious experience. (noun)
• The stone tablets inscribed with the Law of Moses. (noun)

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• "The Reformed Dissenters "prefix a _Narrative_ to their testimony," thus rejecting _history_ from _testimony_."
• "_good_, such a declaration would not be entitled to a feather's weight as testimony; it is not _testimony_ but _opinion_."
• "In many civil cases, what the two parties swear in testimony is mutually irreconcilable and one or the other is wrong; the answer is to let the jury determine who's not being truthful and let the punishment be they lose the case."