bear witness
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.30 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To deliver a testimony, especially as witness
verb
To prove, demonstrate
Example Sentences
- "He hesitated to bear witness against them in court for fear of reprisals by the felons' accomplices"
- "The dubious state of the whole society bears witness of years of misrule"
- "In stretches, this new Apes is an audacious, idiosyncratic piece of blockbuster filmmaking: a mix of Pixar, revenge Westerns, and Apocalypse Now, told almost entirely from the point-of-view of a posse of gun-toting, super-evolved apes as they roam the snowy Sierra Nevada foothills of the post-apocalyptic future, accompanied by a mute human girl, and bear witness to the strange cruelty of man."
- "Nor, having married coach and bogie design successfully, does it follow that good riding will ensue, whatever the track carrying it—as the performance of B.R. standard coaches on flat-bottom, concrete-sleepered track bears witness."