Seek vs Witness - What's the difference?

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Seek is a related term of witness.

As verbs the difference between seek and witness

is that seek is (lb) to try to find, to look for, to search while witness is to furnish proof of, to show.

As a noun witness is

attestation of a fact or event; testimony.

seek

English

Verb

(lb) To try to find, to look for, to search.

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(label) To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to beseech.

*Bible, (w) xi. 16

*:Others, tempting him, sought of him a sign.

*1960 , (Lobsang Rampa), :

*:“My, my! It is indeed a long way yet, look you!” said the pleasant woman of whom I sought directions.

(lb) To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at.

*1880 , , :

*:But persecution sought the lives of men of this character.

*1886 , Constantine Popoff, translation of (Leo Tolstoy)'s :

*:I can no longer seek fame or glory, nor can I help trying to get rid of my riches, which separate me from my fellow-creatures.

*:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.

To go, move, travel (in a given direction).

*, Bk.V:

*:Ryght so he sought towarde Sandewyche where he founde before hym many galyard knyghtes

(lb) To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.

*:Seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.

*1726 (tr.), (Alexander Pope), ''(Homer)'s (Odyssey), Book II, line 33

*:Since great Ulysses sought the Phrygian plains

Quotations

Synonyms

* look for * search

Derived terms

* (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)

Anagrams

* English irregular verbs

witness

English

Noun

(es)

Attestation of a fact or event; testimony.

She can bear witness , since she was there at the time.

* Shakespeare

May we with the witness of a good conscience, pursue him with any further revenge?

One who sees or has personal knowledge of something.

As a witness to the event, I can confirm that he really said that.

* Shakespeare

Thyself art witness I am betrothed.

* R. Hall

Upon my looking round, I was witness to appearances which filled me with melancholy and regret.

Someone called to give evidence in a court.

The witness for the prosecution did not seem very credible.

Something that serves as evidence; a sign.

* Bible, Genesis xxxi. 51, 52

Laban said to Jacob, This heap be witness', and this pillar be ' witness .

Derived terms

* expert witness * eyewitness * key witness * principal witness

Verb

(es)

To furnish proof of, to show.

This certificate witnesses his presence on that day.

* 1667': round he throws his baleful eyes / That '''witness'd huge affliction and dismay — John Milton, ''Paradise Lost , Book 1 ll. 56-7

To take as evidence.

To see or gain knowledge of through experience.

He witnessed the accident.

* R. Hall

This is but a faint sketch of the incalculable calamities and horrors we must expect, should we ever witness the triumphs of modern infidelity.

* Marshall

General Washington did not live to witness the restoration of peace.

To present personal religious testimony; to preach at (someone) or on behalf of.

* 1998 , "Niebuhr, Reinhold", Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy , volume 6?, page 842

Instead, Niebuhr's God was the God witnessed to in the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament, the Bible of the Christian world.

To see the execution of (a legal instrument), and subscribe it for the purpose of establishing its authenticity.

to witness a bond or a deed

Synonyms

* certify