All 8 Uses of
testimony
in
To Kill a Mockingbird
- Mr. Ewell, you will keep your testimony within the confines of Christian English usage, if that is possible.
p. 232..9testimony = a statement at a trial or hearing
- Mr. Ewell, you heard the sheriff's testimony, didn't you?
p. 235..2 *testimony = statement (made under oath in a court trial)
- He went to the court reporter, said something, and the reporter entertained us for some minutes by reading Mr. Tate's testimony as if it were stock-market quotations: "…which eye her left oh yes that'd make it her right it was her right eye Mr. Finch I remember now she was bunged."
p. 235..8testimony = a statement at a trial or hearing
- -do you wish to reconsider any of your testimony?
p. 249..8
- Mr. Braxton Underwood, who had been sitting quietly in a chair reserved for the Press, soaking up testimony with his sponge of a brain, allowed his bitter eyes to rove over the colored balcony, and they met mine.
p. 252..6testimony = statements that serve as evidence at a trial
- As Tom Robinson gave his testimony, it came to me that Mayella Ewell must have been the loneliest person in the world.
p. 256..6testimony = a statement at a trial or hearing
- It has relied instead upon the testimony of two witnesses whose evidence has not only been called into serious question on cross-examination, but has been flatly contradicted by the defendant.
p. 271..7testimony = statements that serve as evidence in a trial
- The witnesses for the state, with the exception of the sheriff of Maycomb County, have presented themselves to you gentlemen, to this court, in the cynical confidence that their testimony would not be doubted,
p. 273..3testimony = statements that serve as evidence at a trial
Definition:
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(testimony) something that serves as evidence -- especially a statement at a trial or hearing