attestation
attestation Lexical Profile
attestation Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A formal statement, declaration, or action bearing witness that something is true, genuine, or valid; the act of witnessing the signing of a formal document and signing it to verify its execution.
"The notary public signed the attestation at the bottom of the will to confirm the identity of the signatory."
Evidence or proof of the existence or occurrence of something, especially the earliest recorded occurrence of a word or linguistic form in historical texts.
"The earliest known attestation of this idiom appears in a collection of seventeenth-century letters."
• Rhymes for attestation
Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the 15th century from Middle French attestation, from Latin attestatio, derived from attestari ('to bear witness to'), combining ad- ('to') and testari ('to witness'), from testis ('a witness').