testaments
Evidence of beliefs
Testaments are things that serve as evidence or proof: The ruins stand as testaments to the city's ancient glory.
The word often appears in the phrase a testament to, indicating something demonstrates a quality or achievement.
In legal contexts, a testament is a will—a document declaring how property should be distributed after death.
Capitalized, the Old Testament and New Testament are the two main divisions of the Christian Bible.
Faculty of deliberate choice
- bequestGift left by will
- estateProperty and grounds
- inheritanceProperty received from ancestors
- beneficiaryDesignated asset receiver
executor · probate · codicil · devise · legacy · succession · endowment · heir
Demonstration of truth
- witnessOne who attests
- attestationFormal declaration confirming truth
- demonstrationPublic display of opinion
- confirmationEstablishing something as true
verification · tribute · monument · indicator · affirmation · substantiation · validation · corroboration
Christian sacred writings
- scriptureSacred religious writings
- gospelSacred choral tradition
- covenantBinding formal pledge
- prophecyForetelling of future events
revelation · canon · apostle · psalm · epistle · Torah · commandments · sacred text
will
Faculty of deliberate choice
- bequestGift left by will
- estateProperty and grounds
- inheritanceProperty received from ancestors
beneficiary · executor · probate · codicil · devise · legacy · succession · endowment · heir · trust
proof
Demonstration of truth
- witnessOne who attests
- attestationFormal declaration confirming truth
- demonstrationPublic display of opinion
confirmation · verification · tribute · monument · indicator · affirmation · substantiation · validation · corroboration · manifestation
Bible
Christian sacred writings
prophecy · revelation · canon · apostle · psalm · epistle · Torah · commandments · sacred text · Pentateuch
pact
Formal agreement between parties
vow · bond · compact · promise · accord · pledge · commitment · charter · concordat · solemn promise
- inheritanceinheritance, inheritances, heir, heirs, heiress
- legal actsassignment, agreements, bequest, contracts, conveyance
- scriptureBible, verses, passages, holy scripture, biblical passages
- civil lawproperty disputes, Napoleonic Code, litigation, damage claims, codification
- Colonial Archivesroyal decrees, parish registers, land titles, property deeds, court cases
- historical recordsdiary, census record, annual reviews, letter, government records
testamentsconjectures
Unverified assumptions or theories
speculations · opinions · guesses · suppositions · hunches
testamentsdenials
Refusals to acknowledge
refutations · disproofs · contradictions · disavowals · repudiations
- Old TestamentPre-Christian biblical canon
- New TestamentSecond biblical division
- last will and testamentDocument directing posthumous asset distribution
- Will and TestamentDirections for estate distribution
- Old Testament storiesPre-Christian scriptural accounts
- New Testament teachingsChrist's recorded instructions