All 3 Uses of
testify
in
Great Expectations
- Conscience is a dreadful thing when it accuses man or boy; but when, in the case of a boy, that secret burden co-operates with another secret burden down the leg of his trousers, it is (as I can testify) a great punishment.†
p. 11.4testify = provide evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
- There may be black ingratitude in the thing, and the punishment may be retributive and well deserved; but that it is a miserable thing, I can testify.†
p. 112.1 *
- At last, the old woman and the niece came in,—the latter with a head not easily distinguishable from her dusty broom,—and testified surprise at sight of me and the fire.†
p. 348.8testified = provided evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
Definition:
provide evidence of something -- especially to say something under oath in a court of law