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:
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(testimonial) something that recommends (or expresses commendation) -- especially a verbal statement