All 6 Uses
testify
in
The Handmaid's Tale
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- Two-thirty comes during Testifying.†
Chpt 13 *testifying = providing evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
- Aunt Helena is here, as well as Aunt Lydia, because Testifying is special.†
Chpt 13
- Aunt Helena is fat, she once headed a Weight Watchers' franchise operation in Iowa: She's good at Testifying.†
Chpt 13
- At Testifying, it's safer to make things up than to say you have nothing to reveal.†
Chpt 13
- I'm afraid I am too late, held up by Janine's Testifying: maybe Moira has been here already, maybe she's had to go back.†
Chpt 13
- It didn't mean she wouldn't testify against us, any of us, if she had the occasion.†
Chpt 22testify = provide evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
Definitions:
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(1)
(testify) provide evidence of something -- especially to say something under oath in a court of law
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)