But the Poor, as they cannot provide Persons to educate their Children; so from the Way in which they live together in poor Families, a Child must be an Eye and Ear-witness of the worst Part of his Parents Talk and Behaviour.
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Earwitness
//ˈɪə̯wɪtnəs//
Synonyms for "earwitness" (8 found)
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Translations
5 translations across 4 languages.
Finnish
1 entries- todistaja noun (witness who gives evidence of what he or she has heard)
French
1 entries- témoin auriculaire noun (witness who gives evidence of what he or she has heard)
German
2 entries- Ohrenzeuge noun (witness who gives evidence of what he or she has heard)
- Ohrenzeugin noun (witness who gives evidence of what he or she has heard)
Hungarian
1 entries- fültanú noun (witness who gives evidence of what he or she has heard)
Sample sentences
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My object being to ascertain the truth, and the truth only, on receiving your last letter I immediately wrote to the Rev. H. Seymour, author of the "Pilgrimage to Rome," although I have no acquaintance with him–and I now give you the evidence of this eye and ear-witness, as copied from his letter, dated Bath, Feb. 6th, 1851, now lying before me.
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Our cubehouse still rocks as earwitness to the thunder of his arafatas but we hear also through successive ages that shebby choruysh of unkalified muzzlenimiissilehims that would blackguardise the whitestone ever hurtleturtled out of heaven.
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In December 1996 almost the entire front page of a daily newspaper was devoted to the report of a court case involving earwitness testimony.
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