All 6 Uses of
testify
in
The Prince and The Pauper
- This was vastly enjoyed, as the laughter testified.†
Chpt 4 *testified = provided evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
- They come to testify their royal masters' sense of the heavy calamity which hath visited your Grace and the realm of England.†
Chpt 14testify = provide evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
- Please your Majesty, the doctors testified that none die with such symptoms but by poison.†
Chpt 15testified = provided evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
- Many testified that a witch, since gone from the village, none know whither, did foretell, and speak it privately in their ears, that the sick man WOULD DIE BY POISON—and more, that a stranger would give it—a stranger with brown hair and clothed in a worn and common garb; and surely this prisoner doth answer woundily to the bill.†
Chpt 15
- When the woman was called upon to testify before the justice of the peace, she swore that the small prisoner at the bar was the person who had committed the theft; there was none able to show the contrary, so the King stood convicted.†
Chpt 23testify = provide evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
- Hugh was not prosecuted for his threats or for stealing his brother's estates and title, because the wife and brother would not testify against him—and the former would not have been allowed to do it, even if she had wanted to.†
Chpt Cncl.
Definition:
provide evidence of something -- especially to say something under oath in a court of law