All 3 Uses of
testify
in
Misery, by Stephen King
- The certainty was that Annie's decision to testify in her own behalf at the preliminary hearing had been extremely unwise.†
Chpt 2testify = provide evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
- If she had insisted on testifying in her own behalf at her trial, Paul thought, her lawyer probably would have shot her to shut her up.†
Chpt 2 *testifying = providing evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
- Her husband never testified for either side.†
Chpt 2testified = provided evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
Definition:
provide evidence of something -- especially to say something under oath in a court of law