Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of attesting; a declaration, verbal or written, in support of a fact; evidence; testimony.
- noun The administration of an oath, as to a military recruit. See
attest , 4.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of attesting; testimony; witness; a solemn or official declaration, verbal or written, in support of a fact; evidence. The truth appears from the
attestation of witnesses, or of the proper officer. The subscription of a name to a writing as a witness, is anattestation .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A thing that serves to
bear witness ,confirm orauthenticate . - noun A
confirmation orauthentication . - noun business, finance The process, performed by
accountants orauditors , of providing independentopinion on published financial and other business information of a business, public agency, or other organization. - noun linguistics An appearance
in print or otherwise recorded on a permanentmedium .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the action of bearing witness
- noun the evidence by which something is attested
Etymologies
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Examples
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While remote attestation is obviously useful, the current TCG approach to attestation is flawed.
Boing Boing: September 28, 2003 - October 4, 2003 Archives 2003
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Remote attestation is the most significant and the most revolutionary of the four major feature groups described by Microsoft.
Boing Boing: September 28, 2003 - October 4, 2003 Archives 2003
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Because the attestation is "remote", others with whom you interact should be able to tell, too.
Boing Boing: September 28, 2003 - October 4, 2003 Archives 2003
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As, however, this testimony has been publicly called in question, though not until eight months after her death, we obtained through the kindness of the Baroness Paul de Ralli, a friend of Lady Burton at Trieste, the following written attestation from the priest who attended Sir Richard
The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton William Henry Burton Wilkins 1897
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The Baroness Paul de Ralli, who procured the above attestation from the priest, sent it in the first instance to Cardinal Vaughan, together with the following letter:
The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton William Henry Burton Wilkins 1897
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She had assured me that she had taken the sacrament in attestation of her innocence of all criminality; that assurance and other circumstances induced me to believe her innocent of the last offence; but of the impropriety of her conduct and total disregard of outward appearance, by which alone society can form its opinion, no one who moved in our circles could doubt.
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If we don’t accept that example because of the (subtle) difference in meaning, the next attestation is in 1867.
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If we don’t accept that example because of the (subtle) difference in meaning, the next attestation is in 1867.
A debate centering around etymological and logical fallacies « Motivated Grammar 2010
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Wouldn't it be useful to record centrally the notion of attestation?
From Incite comes Insight...: The correct way to think about identity... James McGovern 2005
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Do they think that federations also need the notion of attestation?
From Incite comes Insight...: Thoughts on bloggers and Federated Identity James McGovern 2005
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