(give) witness to
idiom
: to declare belief in (a god or religion)
They gave witness to their faith.
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The second officer failed to intervene when a state police detective coached a witness to provide a false statement, their suit contends.
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Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 21 June 2024
Directed by Irene Taylor (Leave No Trace, Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements), the film builds on the confessional energy of the Instagram video by inviting fans to bear witness to her struggles with SPS.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 June 2024
And this has long presented a puzzle: How can people who prize moral rectitude and personal witness to Jesus so faithfully support the most secular president in American history, someone who seems by his behavior at best indifferent to Christianity?
—Shadi Hamid, Washington Post, 17 June 2024
Jenny Tomalin, Analyst for Verizon Tomalin testified as a custodial witness to allow prosecutors to get Allen Weisselberg's cellphone records into evidence.
—Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 27 May 2024
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Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 21 June 2024
Directed by Irene Taylor (Leave No Trace, Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements), the film builds on the confessional energy of the Instagram video by inviting fans to bear witness to her struggles with SPS.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 June 2024
And this has long presented a puzzle: How can people who prize moral rectitude and personal witness to Jesus so faithfully support the most secular president in American history, someone who seems by his behavior at best indifferent to Christianity?
—Shadi Hamid, Washington Post, 17 June 2024
Jenny Tomalin, Analyst for Verizon Tomalin testified as a custodial witness to allow prosecutors to get Allen Weisselberg's cellphone records into evidence.
—Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 27 May 2024
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“(give) witness to.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/%28give%29%20witness%20to. Accessed 7 Jul. 2024.
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