Memorial vs Testimony - What's the difference?
memorial | testimony |
A structure, such as a monument, intended to celebrate the memory of a person or event
A service of remembrance or commemoration
(legal) a statement of facts set out in the form of a petition to a person in authority, a court or tribunal, a government, etc .
Serving as a remembrance of someone or something; commemorative.
* Alexander Pope
Contained in the memory.
Mnemonic; assisting the memory.
* Skeat
(legal) statements made by a witness in court.
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, title = Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?
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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
As nouns the difference between memorial and testimony
is that memorial is memorial while testimony is (legal) statements made by a witness in court.memorial
English
(wikipedia memorial)Noun
(en noun)Adjective
(en adjective)- a memorial building
- There high in air, memorial of my name, / Fix the smooth oar, and bid me live to fame.
- a memorial possession
- This succession of Aspirate, Soft, and Hard, may be expressed by the memorial word ASH.
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.