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Definition of Testify
Testify

To make a solemn declaration, verbal or written, to establish some fact; to give testimony for the purpose of communicating to others a knowledge of something not known to them.

To make a solemn declaration under oath or affirmation, for the purpose of establishing, or making proof of, some fact to a court; to give testimony in a cause depending before a tribunal.

To declare a charge; to protest; to give information; to bear witness; -- with against.

To bear witness to; to support the truth of by testimony; to affirm or declare solemny.

To affirm or declare under oath or affirmation before a tribunal, in order to prove some fact.

In a testy manner; fretfully; peevishly; with petulance.

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Testify Quotations

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.
Susan Sontag

Several studies, and a number of public statements by senior military and political personalities, testify that - except for disputes between the present nuclear states - all military conflicts, as well as threats to peace, can be dealt with using conventional weapons.
Joseph Rotblat

Salvation cannot come without revelation. Men of the present time testify of heaven and hell, and have never seen either; and I will say that no man knows these things without this.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences.
Whittaker Chambers

In fact, if you have a crime committed against you, and you go to have hypnosis, you can't testify. Because there's no way to test what is real, what's fact, what's fantasy.
Betty Hill

Testify Translations

testify in Dutch is certificeren, getuigen
testify in Finnish is todistaa
testify in German is bezeugen
testify in Italian is asserzioni, attestare
testify in Spanish is atestiguar
testify in Swedish is vittna, intyga


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