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語源

From 古期英語 witnes

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA: /ˈwɪt.nəs/, /ˈwɪt.nɪs/

名詞

witness (複数形 witnesses)

1. Attestation of a fact or event.

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

2. One who has a personal knowledge of something.

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

3. Someone called to give evidence in a court.

   The witness for the prosecution did not seem very credible.

4. Something that serves as evidence; a sign.

派生語

• expert witness
• eyewitness

動詞

to witness (三人称単数 現在形 witnesses, 現在分詞 witnessing, 過去形および過去分詞形 witnessed)

1. (transitive) 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
2. (transitive) To take as evidence.
   • 1993, Vicki M. Pino, “Viewpoints from our Readers after "Aprongate": Lighten up”, Atlanta Journal Constitution:

     Depression often goes undetected until it is too late . Witness the recent White House suicide.

3. (transitive) To see, note, or gain knowledge of.

   He witnessed the accident.

4. (intransitive, construed with to または for) To present personal religious testimony; to preach at (someone) or on behalf of.

   "I don't really want to be actively harrassed (I mean witnessed to) (...)"^[1]

   • 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.

同意語

• certify

参照

1. ^ Raising children with a Christian (かつ extended fam)

アナグラム

• wisents