Testimony vs Disclosure - What's the difference?
testimony | disclosure |
(legal) statements made by a witness in court.
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, date = 21 August 2012
, first = Ed
, last = Pilkington
, title = Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?
, newspaper = The Guardian
, url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/21/death-penalty-trial-reggie-clemons?newsfeed=true
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, passage = The Missouri prosecutors' case against Clemons, based partly on incriminating testimony given by his co-defendants, was that Clemons was part of a group of four youths who accosted the sisters on the Chain of Rocks Bridge one dark night in April 1991.
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An account of first-hand experience.
* Milton
In a church service, a personal account, such as of one's conversion.
Witness; evidence; proof of some fact.
* Bible Mark vi. 11
The act of something.
(legal) The making known of a previously hidden fact or series of facts to another party; the act of disclosing.
(legal) A previously hidden fact or series of facts that is made known.
In legal|lang=en terms the difference between testimony and disclosure
is that testimony is (legal) statements made by a witness in court while disclosure is (legal) a previously hidden fact or series of facts that is made known.As nouns the difference between testimony and disclosure
is that testimony is (legal) statements made by a witness in court while disclosure is the act of something.testimony
English
(wikipedia testimony)Alternative forms
* testimonie (obsolete)Noun
(testimonies)- [Thou] for the testimony of truth, hast borne / Universal reproach.
- When ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them.
Derived terms
* compel testimony * testimonialExternal links
* *disclosure
English
Noun
(en noun)- get full disclosure