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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

(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.)

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

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