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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
witness .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Spirit in the word witnesseth: the Spirit in the word says, he who is qualified, who is a hater of sin and a lover of holiness, is
The Lord's Prayer 1692
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And when he came to the gate, as, Leo witnesseth, which is called
The Golden Legend, vol. 4 1230-1298 1900
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Again, Philologus witnesseth which is the truth of Christ,
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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One of the sheets has huge writing that says 'witnesseth' and then some other stuff I wasn't close enough to see. "
The Burning City Niven, Larry 2000
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Where towering pyramids of skulls her glory witnesseth.
Archive 2010-05-01 Blue Tyson 2010
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Experience witnesseth that ecclesiastical establishments, instead of maintaining the purity and efficacy of religion, have had a contrary operation.
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Communities do not want to be repositories for nuclear waste- witnesseth the Yucca Mountain debacle and EPA's insidious attempt to expand the range of acceptable contamination through drift from 3 to 11 miles...
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Eugubinus in his consultations, found it (as he there witnesseth) often verified by experience, [2858] that after a deal of physic to no purpose, left to themselves, they have recovered.
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Qui mala non fert, ipse sibi testis est per impatientiam quod bonus non est, he that cannot bear injuries, witnesseth against himself that he is no good man, as
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Galen takes exception at mutton, but without question he means that rammy mutton, which is in Turkey and Asia Minor, which have those great fleshy tails, of forty-eight pounds weight, as Vertomannus witnesseth, navig. lib.
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