Attest vs Declaration - What's the difference?
attest | declaration |
To affirm to be correct, true, or genuine.
* Addison
* 1599 — Shakespeare, iii 1'' (Act ii in ''First Folio edition)
To certify by signature or oath
To certify in an official capacity.
To supply or be evidence of
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* 1599 — Shakespeare, Prologue'' (''First Folio edition)
To put under oath.
To call to witness; to invoke.
* Dryden
A written or oral indication of a fact, opinion, or belief.
A list of items for various legal purposes, e.g. customs declaration.
The act or process of declaring.
(cricket) The act, by the captain of a batting side, of declaring an innings closed.
(legal) In common law, the formal document specifying plaintiff’s cause of action, including the facts necessary to sustain a proper cause of action, and to advise the defendant of the grounds upon which he is being sued.
(computing) The specification of a variable's type
As a verb attest
is to affirm to be correct, true, or genuine.As a noun declaration is
declaration (written or oral indication of a fact, opinion, or belief).attest
English
Verb
(en verb)- When will the appraiser attest the date of the painting?
- facts attested by particular pagan authors
- Dishonour not your Mothers: now attest that those whom you call'd Fathers, did beget you.
- You must attest your will in order for it to be valid.
- Her fine work attested her ability.
- The supplementary bibliography (in Vol. VI) attests to the comprehensiveness of the effort.
- O pardon : since a crooked Figure may / Attest in little place a Million, / And let us, Cyphers to this great Accompt, / On your imaginarie Forces worke.
- The sacred streams which Heaven's imperial state / Attests in oaths, and fears to violate.