testimony

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   something that serves as evidence

   Their effort was testimony to their devotion.

2. 2
   noun

   an assertion offering firsthand authentication of a fact

   According to your own testimony, you can not do it.

3. 3
   noun

   Statements made by a witness in court.

   The Missouri prosecutors' case against Clemons, based partly on incriminating testimony given by his co-defendants, was that Clemons was part of a group of four youths who accosted the sisters on the Chain of Rocks Bridge one dark night in April 1991.

4. 4
   noun

   An account of first-hand experience.

   [Thou] for the testimony of truth, hast borne / Universal reproach.

5. 5
   noun

   Witness; evidence; proof of some fact.

   And whoſoeuer ſhall not receiue you, noꝛ heare you, when yee depart thence, *ſhake off the duſt vnder your feet, foꝛ a teſtimonie against them: Uerely I ſay vnto you, it ſhalbe moꝛe tolerable for Sodom and Gomoꝛrha in the day of iudgement, then foꝛ that citie.

6. 6
   noun

   a solemn statement made under oath

7. 7
   noun

   In a church service (or religious service), a personal account, such as one's conversion, testimony of faith, or life testimony.

Etymology

PIE word *tréyes Inherited from Middle English testimonie, from Old French testimonie, from Latin testimōnium (“testimony”).