Both Uses of
testimonial
in
The Sunlight Dialogues
- There stood the whole family—three, four generations—the living testimonial to the man's having been; all dressed in their finest and at peace with one another; and there stood his business acquaintances and his friends from the church, the schoolboard he'd once been a member of, all quarrels forgotten; and there stood his friends from the Dairyman's League or Kiwanis or the Owls or the Masons.†
Chpt 1 *
- Let Boyle go, let the teen-age hoods keep on beating up women in their beds, let that damned pile of mail on his desk keep building, and he was finished—no big testimonial dinner, no parade, no pension, no gold watch.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
something that recommends (or expresses commendation) -- especially a verbal statement