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Definition of Earwitnesses
1. earwitness [n] - See also: earwitness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Earwitnesses
Literary usage of Earwitnesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dissertations upon the principles and arrangement of a harmony of the by Edward Greswell (1837)
"The eyewitnesses, or earwitnesses, of our Saviour's personal history were competent
to have made it known to others by word of mouth, without resorting to ..."
2. Collections by Minisink Valley Historical Society, Connecticut Historical Society (1848)
"About fourteen days after, the same voice was heard, in the like dreadful
manner, (divers sober persons were earwitnesses hereof, at both times,) on the ..."
3. The Church History of Britain: From the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, John Sherren Brewer (1845)
"... reservation of some invisible persons within it, earwitnesses to all the
passages betwixt them, whereby many secrecies of Garnet's were discovered. 49. ..."
4. A General History of New England, from the Discovery to MDCLXXX by William Hubbard (1848)
"About fourteen days after, the same voice was heard, in the like dreadful
manner, (divers sober persons were earwitnesses hereof, at both times,) on the ..."
5. The American Quarterly Review by Robert Walsh (1835)
"... being totally unable to find two individuals, among the by-standers, earwitnesses
and eyewitnesses of the transaction, who could agree in their relation ..."
6. Essays on the Supernatural Origin of Christianity: With Special Reference to by George Park Fisher (1870)
"... which tends to weaken the established view that the Gospels belong to the
apostolic age, embody the testimony of the eyewitnesses and earwitnesses of ..."
7. Spiritual Magazine (1868)
"The eye and earwitnesses to these strange manifestations were so numerous,
intelligent, and respectable, that we found it difficult, even in our most ..."
8. A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases, and Maxims: With an Explanatory by Frederic Jesup Stimson, Harvey Cortlandt Voorhees (1911)
"Plus valet unus oculatus testis quam auriti decem: one eyewitness is of more
weight than ten earwitnesses. Plus, pluis, fr. More; most. ..."
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