Both Uses
testament
in
Anne Of Green Gables
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- When school went out Anne marched to her desk, ostentatiously took out everything therein, books and writing tablet, pen and ink, testament and arithmetic, and piled them neatly on her cracked slate.†
p. 111.7 *testament = strong proof of something, or a formal written statement
- Ruby Gillis smuggled three blue plums over to her during testament reading; Ella May MacPherson gave her an enormous yellow pansy cut from the covers of a floral catalogue—a species of desk decoration much prized in Avonlea school.†
p. 129.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(testament) evidence or proof of something, or a formal written statement — such as a will or one of the two main parts of the Christian BibleMost commonly, you can substitute "evidence" or "proof" for testament. But see the first exemplary sample sentences for other common word substitutions.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)