Helen Fenton

Attest: Definition and part of speech

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Attest

  1. n. Witness; testimony; attestation.
  2. v. t. To bear witness to; to certify; to affirm to be true or genuine; as, to attest the truth of a writing, a copy of record.
  3. v. t. To give proof of; to manifest; as, the ruins of Palmyra attest its ancient magnificence.
  4. v. t. To call to witness; to invoke.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Attestation: Definition and part of speech

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Attestation

  1. n. The act of attesting; testimony; witness; a solemn or official declaration, verbal or written, in support of a fact; evidence. The truth appears from the attestation of witnesses, or of the proper officer. The subscription of a name to a writing as a witness, is an attestation.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.