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# testify

«testify» in Mova's school dictionary: **to tell what you know or saw, especially in a court and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (testifies, testified, testifying)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To testify is to tell what you know or saw, especially in a court and on oath. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/testify/#m1)

2) To testify is to show or prove something: the scars testify to the fight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/testify/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

witnesses who tell what they saw; a story can testify that something happened long ago

### examples

- The boy was ready to testify in court. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/testify/#x1)
- The witnesses testified that they saw the man. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/testify/#x2)
- The old stones testify to a long history. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/testify/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [Hear ye, and testify against the house of Jacob, saith the Lord GOD, the God of hosts.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/AMO.49/)
- [Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; yea, thine own lips testify against thee.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.369/)
- [Even now, behold, my Witness is in heaven, and He that testifieth of me is on high.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.423/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «testify» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/testify/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.