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Definition
to provide evidence or verbally confirm that something is true
- Oh, yes; and they may have the fact attested whenever they please.Chapters 27-28 (90% in)
- ...tear; when Villefort, trembling, and crouched in a corner, had endeavored to lessen the storm by supplicating glances at the implacable old man,—"Sir," said d'Epinay to Noirtier, "since you are well acquainted with all these details, which are attested by honorable signatures,—since you appear to take some interest in me, although you have only manifested it hitherto by causing me sorrow, refuse me not one final satisfaction—tell me the name of the president of the club, that I may at...Chapters 75-76 (47% in)
- Albert opened the paper, it was an attestation of four notable inhabitants of Yanina, proving that Colonel Fernand Mondego, in the service of Ali Tepelini, had surrendered the castle for two million crowns.Chapters 83-84 (77% in)
- Do you wish these proofs, these attestations, which I alone possess, to be destroyed?Chapters 83-84 (84% in)
There are no more uses of "attest" in The Count of Monte Cristo.
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