witnessern.
/ˈwɪtnɪsə/ Now rare.
One who witnesses; a witness.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > [noun] > a witness, testifier
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society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > evidence > [noun] > a witness
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c1400 Pilgr. Sowle (1483) iii. v. 53 Ye lyers forswerers and witnessers of falshede.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 26 Whanne a mater..is witnessid..bi a reuerend..witnesser or denouncer or remembrer (as is God, an Apostil, or a Doctour).
c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Gilbert xxxiv. 110 Þoo cleped þei þe witnesses, or witnesseres,..mad hem to swere þat þei schuld say soth in þat mater.
a1483 Liber Niger in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 55 They sitte with hym at the bourd of doome..as recorders and witnessers to the trouthe.
?1530 Dialoges Creatures Moralysed xxii. G iv A false witnesser.
1554 T. Martin Traictise Marriage of Priestes xi. sig. Ziii He was nowe so well become a constaunte witnesser of the passion of Christe, that..he gaue an example of an heauenly conuersation vnto all his subiectes.
1658 in Extracts State Papers (Friends' Hist. Soc.) (1910) 1st Ser. 42 Lyers, and false witnessers.
1665 J. Sergeant Sure-footing in Christianity 19 An Eminent and Knowing Witnesser to Posterity of the Sence and Faith of the Church.
1874 W. P. Mackay Grace & Truth (new ed.) 36 The blessed Spirit, the witnesser of Christ.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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