All 3 Uses of
testify
in
The Poisonwood Bible
- Also, to cover all bases, a scientist named Dr. Gottlieb was hired to make a poison that would produce such a dreadful disease (the good doctor later testified in the hearings), if it didn't kill Lumumba outright it would leave him so disfigured that he couldn't possibly be a leader of men.†
Chpt 4testified = provided evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
- I promised him I would testify to those very words: Rescued from imminent prospect of death.†
Chpt 5 *testify = provide evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
- Speaking became a matter of self-defense, since Mother seems to have gone mute, and with no one to testify to my place in the world I found myself at the same precipice I teetered upon when entering the first grade: gifted, or special education with the ear-pulling Crawleys?†
Chpt 5
Definition:
provide evidence of something -- especially to say something under oath in a court of law