All 6 Uses of
testimony
in
Great Expectations
- behind the gate;—whether Miss Havisham, preferring to take personal vengeance for an outrage done to her house, might rise in those grave-clothes of hers, draw a pistol, and shoot me dead:—whether suborned boys—a numerous band of mercenaries—might be engaged to fall upon me in the brewery, and cuff me until I was no more;—it was high testimony to my confidence in the spirit of the pale young gentleman, that I never imagined him accessory to these retaliations; they always came into my mind as the acts of injudicious relatives of his, goaded on by the state of his visage and an indignant sympathy with the family features.†
Chpt 12testimony = something that serves as evidence -- especially a statement at a trial or hearing
- However novel and peculiar this testimony of attachment, I did not doubt the accuracy of the interpretation.†
Chpt 17 *
- He gave the medical testimony, in pointed imitation of our local practitioner; and he piped and shook, as the aged turnpike-keeper who had heard blows, to an extent so very paralytic as to suggest a doubt regarding the mental competency of that witness.†
Chpt 18
- These testimonies to the popularity of my guardian made a deep impression on me, and I admired and wondered more than ever.†
Chpt 20testimonies = evidence -- especially statements in a trial
- Having borne this flattering testimony to the merits of our dwelling-place, and having incidentally shown this tendency to call me "sir," Joe, being invited to sit down to table, looked all round the room for a suitable spot on which to deposit his hat,—as if it were only on some very few rare substances in nature that it could find a resting place,—and ultimately stood it on an extreme corner of the chimney-piece, from which it ever afterwards fell off at intervals.†
Chpt 27testimony = something that serves as evidence -- especially a statement at a trial or hearing
- But I, misled by the action, and confused by the occasion, shook hands with him with every testimony of warm affection.†
Chpt 35