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Synonyms for bear witness
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  1. bear witnessverb

    Synonyms:
    testify

  2. bear witnessverb

    To deliver a testimony, especially as witness

    He hesitated to bear witness against them in court for fear of reprisals by the fellons' accomplices

    Synonyms:
    testify

  3. bear witnessverb

    To prove, demonstrate

    The dubious state of the whole society bears witness of years of misrule

    Synonyms:
    testify

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. testify, bear witness, prove, evidence, showverb

    provide evidence for

    "The blood test showed that he was the father"; "Her behavior testified to her incompetence"

    Synonyms:
    attest, express, rise, leaven, demo, try, exhibit, register, show, testify, establish, depict, test, evidence, try out, tell, present, read, point, examine, indicate, take the stand, record, picture, certify, usher, designate, essay, raise, render, evince, prove, shew, turn out, demonstrate, manifest, show up, turn up

  2. testify, attest, take the stand, bear witnessverb

    give testimony in a court of law

    Synonyms:
    testify, demonstrate, take the stand, evidence, show, attest, certify, manifest, prove

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  1. bear witness

    Synonyms:
    testify, depose, state, affirm, declare, aver, avow, say, SWEAR

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How to use bear witness in a sentence?

  1. John Lewis:

    I can bear witness that the portrait painted of that time and place in our history is very real, it's seared in my memory, black men and women, our brothers and sisters, treated as second class citizens, threatened for raising their families or earning a living, beaten and sometimes killed for the crime of trying to live a life with dignity. Our nation bears the scars of that time, as do I.

  2. Hilary Roberts:

    War is such an extreme human experience, people have the urge to either bear witness -- and the camera is a very good way of doing that -- or they seek insight and understanding.

  3. Ron Wyden:

    If politicians want to restrict the First Amendment or eliminate the tools with which much of the world communicates in real time, they should understand they are also taking away the tools that bear witness to government brutality, war crimes, corporate lawlessness and incidents of racial bias.

  4. Donald Trump:

    We will never, ever be silent in the face of evil again. Denying the Holocaust is only one of many dangerous forms of anti-Semitism that continues all around the world, this is my pledge to you: We will confront anti-Semitism. We will stamp out prejudice, we will condemn hatred, we will bear witness and we will act. As President of the United States, I will always stand with the Jewish people, and I will always stand with our great partner and friend, the state of Israel.

  5. Alexandra Miller:

    In coming to Arizona, President Biden has an important opportunity to bear witness to the cruelty that migrants are experiencing at the border and to see the hard work that humanitarian organizations, legal service providers and other good Samaritans are doing at the border every day, unfortunately, it looks like this opportunity will be missed.


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