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Definition 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
  • (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.)
  • 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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