Noun: testament
| Singular | testament |
| Plural | testaments |
Sample Sentences
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The ancient aqueducts are a testament to the great engineering skill of the Roman Empire.
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His remarkable recovery is a testament to the doctor's skill.
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These ads are a sad testament to the paper's attitude toward gay men, and a disheartening indication of the direction GCN may be going. [1976 August 28, Steven Blevins, “Ads and Beauty Contests”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 9, page 4:]
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The phrase was, and remains, a double-edged sword: a testament to the hard-working and hard-living citizens of the Crescent City and an indicator of the “ah, whatever” shrug hanging over its corrupt politics, its ramshackle infrastructure and its belief that partying trumps all. [2015 August 12, Todd Leopold, “Return to the ‘City That Care Forgot’”, in CNN, archived from the original on 02 Jan 2022:]
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The prime minister's speech was a glowing testament to the cabinet's undying commitment to the royal cause.
Nouns inflected like testament
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English testament, from Old French testament, from Latin testāmentum (“the publication of a will, a will, testament, in Late Latin one of the divisions of the Bible”), from testor (“to be a witness, testify, attest, make a will”), from testis (“one who attests, a witness”). Displaced native Old English ġecȳþnes. See: Middle English Nouns '
testament', Latin Nouns '
testāmentum'.