Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who attests or vouches for.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who attests.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
attests .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who affirms or vouches for the correctness or truth or genuineness of something
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Examples
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Mais ils vont revoir ca. Mes parents vont attester sur l'honneur qu'ils ne me donnent plus rien et que moi je ne touche que ma paie du magasin ...
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2009
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Chancelier a du vous attester, ne m 'avois permis de vous rappeller
Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles Andrew Lang 1878
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In that case I did not fear to make him the attester of my innocence.
Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 Charles Brockden Brown 1790
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His relation to the truth which He brings to us is not that of a man who has thought it out, who has been brought to it by experience, or by feeling, or by a long course of investigation; still less is it the relation which a man would bear to a truth that he had learnt from others originally, however much he had made it his own thereafter: but it is that of one who is not a thinker, or a learner, or a reasoner, but who is simply an attester, a witness.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. Alexander Maclaren 1868
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