Witness
A witness is someone who has, who claims to have, or is thought, by someone with authority to compel testimony, to have knowledge relevant to an event or other matter of interest. In law a witness is someone who, either voluntarily or under compulsion, provides testimonial evidence, either oral or written, of what he or she knows or claims to know about the matter before some official authorized to take such testimony.
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... Generally, a witness is deemed to be credible if they are recognized (or can be recognized) as a source of reliable information about someone, an event, or a ...
More definitions of "witness":
- (noun): Testimony by word or deed to your religious faith.
- (noun): A close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind).
Synonyms: spectator, viewer, watcher, looker
- (noun): (law) a person who testifies under oath in a court of law.
- (noun): (law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature.
Synonyms: attestant, attestor, attestator
Famous quotes containing the word witness:
“He could pause in his cross-examination, look at a man, projecting his face forward by degrees as he did so, in a manner which would crush any false witness who was not armed with triple courage at his breast,—and, alas! not unfrequently a witness who was not false.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)
“Someone said: “There are two people to whom I have never given a lot of thought: that bears witness to my love for them.””
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“No one
bears witness for the
witness.”
—Paul Celan [Paul Antschel] (1920–1970)