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Witness   /wˈɪtnəs/   Listen
Witness

noun
1.
Someone who sees an event and reports what happened.  Synonyms: informant, witnesser.
2.
A close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind).  Synonyms: looker, spectator, viewer, watcher.  "Television viewers" , "Sky watchers discovered a new star"
3.
Testimony by word or deed to your religious faith.
4.
(law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature.  Synonyms: attestant, attestator, attestor.
5.
(law) a person who testifies under oath in a court of law.
verb
(past & past part. witnessed; pres. part. witnessing)
1.
Be a witness to.
2.
Perceive or be contemporaneous with.  Synonyms: find, see.  "You'll see a lot of cheating in this school" , "The 1960's saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions" , "I want to see results"



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"Witness" Quotes from Famous Books



... that officer sitting on the veranda, quietly smoking a cigar, an interested witness ...
— Ted Strong's Motor Car • Edward C. Taylor
... waiter, a witness of the affair, ordered Gordon put out, but did not request Shirley or Stella to leave, because the other man had been the aggressor without any question. After more than an hour Gordon returned, quietly and unobtrusively, with another girl. From Belle's description ...
— The Film Mystery • Arthur B. Reeve
... I'll say, and no more; if you spare me, bygones are bygones, and when you fellows are in court for piracy, I'll save you all I can. It is for you to choose. Kill another and do yourselves no good, or spare me and keep a witness to save you ...
— Treasure Island • Robert Louis Stevenson
... an accidental and entirely disinterested witness. He knew neither of the men; he had merely happened along just when the row began, and had lingered in the shadows to see it through. Twelve, yes, even six months before, he would have mixed in at once; that had always been his way in the States. Not that he was a quarrelsome fellow; ...
— Triple Spies • Roy J. Snell
... from dolce far niente land, and the whispering voice of slumber mingles with the more stirring call of the brain to be up and doing. The recollection that Donald was far away, and could not be with her to witness her triumph, brought a sense of bitter disappointment to her over again. "I must write him everything that happens to-day. He will be happy in my happiness, I know," she murmured, half aloud, and her roommate awoke and answered with a sleepy, ...
— 'Smiles' - A Rose of the Cumberlands • Eliot H. Robinson


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