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to provide evidence or verbally confirm that something is true- His high fever attested to his illness
- I attest this signature
- But many mapmakers still include paper towns as copyright traps, as my bewildering experience in South Dakota attests.John Green -- Paper Towns
- Goodwill supplying the place of experience, his character needed no attestation.Jane Austen -- Northanger Abbey
- Georgia William Few Abr. Baldwin Attest.Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 2
- Our lives attest to that truth.Sampon Davis, et. al. -- We Beat the Street
- Lady Margaery had sworn solemn oaths attesting to her maidenhood, to Her Grace the queen and her late father.George R.R. Martin -- A Feast For Crows
- My brother Ithuriel can attest to that.Cassandra Clare -- City of Glass
- Know anyone who can attest to that?Khaled Hosseini -- The Kite Runner
- The signatures to this instrument purporting to be executed by Mr. W. and attested by Wilkins Micawber, are forgeries by — HEEP.Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
- Arya, for one, can attest to its effectiveness.Christopher Paolini -- Brisingr
- She would have been questioned-attested, perhaps.Agatha Christie -- Murder On The Orient Express
- This singular attestation of Madame de Cintre's delicacy, for all its singularity, set Newman's wound aching afresh.Henry James -- The American
- In many places, hollows here and hillocks there attested great dislocations at some other period of the terrestrial mass.Jules Verne -- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
- Records attesting to his death were pullulating like insect eggs and verifying each other beyond all contention.Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
- But do these buttons that we wear attest that our allegiance is to Nature?Herman Melville -- Billy Budd
- The shield and quiver at its entrance were richer than common, and the high distinction of a fusee, attested the importance of its proprietor.James Fenimore Cooper -- The Prairie
- "She is a hardworking girl, I can attest to that," Mrs. Murphy says.Christina Baker Kline -- Orphan Train
- Our history books attest to that.Marissa Meyer -- Cinder
- Wouldst thou approve thy constancy, approve First thy obedience; the other who can know, Not seeing thee attempted, who attest?John Milton -- Paradise Lost
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
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