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

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.

I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.
Ramsey Clark

I am a very lucky guy. I can testify before Congress. I can raise funds. I can raise awareness.
Christopher Reeve

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

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

Here is also to be noted, that the cause of the institution was to be a memorial, to testify that Christ's body was given, and his blood shed for us.
William Tyndale

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

By definition, a hearing is an inquiry into many sides of an issue with testimony from various points of views. But mark this: The Republicans did not have a single woman to testify in support of the contraception mandate. That is not a hearing; that is a sham.
Felicity Huffman

I answered their questions truthfully and honestly, but I would prefer not to say more. I assume the information was routed back and that is why I was not called to testify.
Jeff Gannon

We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury.
Ben Bradlee

As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law.
Norman Lamm

Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic.
John A. Logan

It is as if Clinton had called one of the most respected character witnesses in all of U.S. history to testify that the primal urge has a most distinguished presidential pedigree.
Joseph J. Ellis

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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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