Testimony vs Speech - What's the difference?
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(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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, 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
(label) The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the ability to speak or to use vocalizations to communicate.
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(label) A session of speaking; a long oral message given publicly usually by one person.
* (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
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A style of speaking.
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, title= A dialect or language.
* Bible, (w) iii. 6
Talk; mention; rumour.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
As nouns the difference between testimony and speech
is that testimony is statements made by a witness in court while speech is the faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the ability to speak or to use vocalizations to communicate.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
* *speech
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Noun
(wikipedia speech)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech . In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}
- The constant design of these orators, in all their speeches , was to drive some one particular point.
Subtle effects, passage=Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.}}
- people of a strange speech
- The dukedid of me demand / What was the speech among the Londoners / Concerning the French journey.