testify

Verb

1. To make a declaration, or give evidence, under oath.
   • It was only after a decade away from Skipton that I was finally able to garner the courage to return and testify against my abuser. - 2014 August 29, Ruzwana Bashir, “The untold story of how a culture of shame...
   • One witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die. - 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Numbers 35:30:
2. To make a statement based on personal knowledge or faith.
   • We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. - 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 3:11:
   • [T]he pleaſures of ſenſe have no reliſh vvhere thou [Jesus] irradiateſt and teſtifieſt vvith our conſcience, that vve are the children of God, and have done thy vvill ſincerely, […] - 1733, Tho[mas] Allen, “Jesus...
3. To be evidence of.
   • "Iberian-Sardinian" substrate features have been posited time and time again. These have usually been explained as testifying to a migration from the Iberian Peninsula to Sardinia in prehistoric times. - 2025, Cid...