ATTESTATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does attestation mean? 

• ATTESTATION (noun)
  The noun ATTESTATION has 2 senses:

1. the action of bearing witness

2. the evidence by which something is attested

  Familiarity information: ATTESTATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ATTESTATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The action of bearing witness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("attestation" is a kind of...):

testimony (a solemn statement made under oath)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Derivation:

attest (give testimony in a court of law)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The evidence by which something is attested

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("attestation" is a kind of...):

evidence (an indication that makes something evident)

Derivation:

attest (authenticate, affirm to be true, genuine, or correct, as in an official capacity)

attest (establish or verify the usage of)

attest (provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes)

 Context examples 

Goodwill supplying the place of experience, his character needed no attestation.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

'I will not say, that since I entered into the engagement I have not had some happy moments; but I can say, that I have never known the blessing of one tranquil hour:'—and the quivering lip, Emma, which uttered it, was an attestation that I felt at my heart.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)