What are the opposite words for testify to?

Antonyms for the word "testify to" might include words such as contradict, refute, challenge or disavow. These words all suggest a different level of certainty or confidence in the truthfulness of a statement. While "testify to" generally implies a strong belief in the accuracy of what's being said, these antonyms suggest varying degrees of doubt or skepticism. Refuting a claim might suggest that the opposite is true, or that there's insufficient evidence to support the original statement. Challenging a statement might simply mean asking for clarification, or pointing out areas where further evidence is needed to draw a conclusion.

Famous quotes with Testify to

• Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic.

  John A. Logan
• To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

  Susan Sontag
• Never allow hardships, difficulties, failures, mistakes, disappointments or things like that to discourage or demoralize you. Rather, let them become motivations or inspirations to your own self and others. Truly, your hardships, difficulties, failures, mistakes, disappointments or things like that can motivate or inspire you for life. As well, they can dishearten (discourage) you for life depending on your outlook (your attitude to life) and approach. I (personally) can testify to that. ~Emeasoba George.

  EMEASOBA GEORGE
• Let us contemplate two epochal events in the long human story. One is the annunciation of the unity of God at Mt. Sinai. That same God was said to have made man, alone among living beings, in His image. Implicit in the unity of God was the corresponding unity of the human race. But it was only after more than three thousand years, that the Declaration of this unity was made in Philadelphia. One need not believe in direct divine intervention to think that it has been the peculiar mission of the American people to testify to the unity on earth of God, and of man. Such testimony could take no more evident form than in the denunciation of chattel slavery in the founding itself. That denunciation is prominent beyond doubt or denial, in the documents of the founding. Men of reason can agree with men of faith, that neither God nor man could have devised a more dramatic event than our founding to demonstrate to the world the meaning inherent in this unity.

  Harry V. Jaffa
• My answer to this dilemma was self-discipline. I figured I could just make myself do good things, think good thoughts about other people, but that was no easier than walking up to a complete stranger and falling in love with them. I could go through the motions for a while, but sooner or later my heart would testify to its true love: darkness. Then I would get up and try again. The cycle was dehumanizing.

  Don Miller (author)

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Related words: testimony, witnessing, attest, witness, witnessing to the truth, tell the truth

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