单词 | eyewitnessing |
释义 | eyewitnessingn. The action or an act of eyewitnessing something; observation with one's own eyes; (also) description based on such observation. ΚΠ 1652 E. Knott Infidelity Vnmasked viii. 676 If God did efficaciously decree, that the birth of our B. Saviour, should be published to the world, by their eye-witnessing. 1677 F. Bampfield Seventh-day-sabbath 90 It..will be so great a work for the inhabited Earth to take notice of, where the ear-report shall come, or the eye-witnessing be, that it will obscure the memory of former Acts. 1828 S. Beazley Roué (N.Y. ed.) II. 66 This eye-witnessing of one of the effects of his heartlessness..had indeed brought conviction too. a1856 H. Miller Testimony of Rocks (1857) iv. 154 Nothing can be more natural or obvious than that they should be so described, had they been revealed by vision as a piece of eye-witnessing. 1950 Hollywood Q. 5 159 Television constitutes an eyewitnessing of events. 2006 16th Cent. Jrnl. 37 459 The thorny question of the role of eyewitnessing in memoirs. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). eyewitnessingadj. That observes or describes an incident or event as an eyewitness. In early use also: †that bears witness to something (obsolete). ΚΠ 1614 W. Lithgow Most Delectable Disc. Peregrination sig. B3v Of whose sight and experience, would God all the Papists in Brittaine had the like eie-witnessing approbation as I haue had. 1647 J. Hart Trodden Down Strength 4 I was made an unworthy Instrument of her recovery, and an eye-witnessing Actor in all her Tragick-Comedy. 1804 R. Kinglake Diss. Gout 275 Will the eye-witnessing friend again come forward with his ocular proof? 1984 Illinois Hist. Jrnl. 77 302/2 The great day of The Talisman's advent in Springfield is admirably sent up by the eyewitnessing poet. 2013 M. M. Steedly Rifle Rep. iii. 114 ‘Wherever we went,’ he concludes, switching to the inclusive intimacy of the eyewitnessing subject, [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1652adj.1614 |
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