" witness "

[Noun]  | "wit*ness" | \ ˈwit-nəs \

1: attestation of a fact or event : testimony

2: one that gives evidence; specifically : one who testifies in a cause or before a judicial tribunal

3: one asked to be present at a transaction so as to be able to testify to its having taken place

Origin: before 12th century ;

 Middle English witnesse, from Old English witnes knowledge, testimony, witness, from {see: |wit:1|wit:1};

[Noun]  | "wit*ness-box" | \ ˈwit-nəs-ˌbäks \

1: an enclosure in which a witness sits or stands while testifying in court

Origin: 1794 ;

[Noun]  | "witness stand" 

1: a stand or an enclosure from which a witness gives evidence in a court

Origin: 1832 ;

[Noun]  | "witness tampering" 

1: the act of physically harming or using threats, intimidation, harassment, or corrupt persuasion against a witness with the goal of influencing the witness's testimony or preventing the witness from providing evidence in an official proceeding

Origin: 1902 ;

[Noun]  | "alibi witness" 

1: a witness upon whom a criminal defendant relies in establishing or providing an alibi

Origin: 1774 ;

[Noun]  | "character witness" 

1: a person who gives evidence in a legal action concerning the reputation, conduct, and moral nature of a party

Origin: circa 1832 ;

[Noun]  | "Jehovah's Witness" 

1: a member of a group that witness by distributing literature and by personal evangelism to beliefs in the theocratic rule of God, the sinfulness of organized religions and governments, and an imminent millennium

Origin: 1929 ;

[Verb]  | "witness" 

1: to testify to : attest

2: to act as legal witness of

3: to furnish proof of : betoken

Origin: 14th century ;

[Idiom]  | "bear witness" 

1: to show that something exists or is true —+ to

2: to make a statement saying that one saw or knows something

[Idiom]  | "be witness to" 

1: to see (something) happen

[Noun]  | "witness" 

[Verb]  | "witness" 

[Phrase]  | "bear witness" 

[Phrase]  | "borne witness" 

[Phrase]  | "bore witness" 

[Phrase]  | "bears witness" 

[Phrase]  | "bearing witness"