Both Uses of
testimony
in
Crime and Punishment
- I was confirmed in that belief by the testimony of my own eyes in the lodging of a drunken man who was run over and has since died, to whose daughter, a young woman of notorious behaviour, he gave twenty-five roubles on the pretext of the funeral, which gravely surprised me knowing what pains you were at to raise that sum.†
Chpt 3.2 *
- Our judges are not so blind and…. not so drunk, and will not believe the testimony of two notorious infidels, agitators, and atheists, who accuse me from motives of personal revenge which they are foolish enough to admit….†
Chpt 5.3
Definition:
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(testimony) something that serves as evidence -- especially a statement at a trial or hearing