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Eyewitness vs Testimony - What's the difference?

eyewitness | testimony |

As nouns the difference between eyewitness and testimony

is that eyewitness is someone who sees an event and can report or testify about it while testimony is statements made by a witness in court.

As a verb eyewitness

is to be present at an event, and see it.

eyewitness

English

(wikipedia eyewitness)

Alternative forms

* eye-witness * eye witness

Noun

  • Someone who sees an event and can report or testify about it.
  • *

    • Verb

    (es)
  • To be present at an event, and see it

    • testimony

    English

    (wikipedia testimony)

    Alternative forms

    * testimonie (obsolete)

    Noun

    (testimonies)
  • (legal) statements made by a witness in court.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , 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 , page = , 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. }}
  • An account of first-hand experience.
  • * Milton
    • [Thou] for the testimony of truth, hast borne / Universal reproach.
  • In a church service, a personal account, such as of one's conversion.
  • Witness; evidence; proof of some fact.
  • * Bible Mark vi. 11
    • When ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them.

    Derived terms

    * compel testimony * testimonial

    Related terms

    * test * testify

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