Testimony vs. Evidence — What's the Difference?

In law and in religion, testimony is a solemn attestation as to the truth of a matter.

Evidence for a proposition is what supports this proposition. It is usually understood as an indication that the supported proposition is true.

A formal written or spoken statement, especially one given in a court of law

A thing or set of things helpful in forming a conclusion or judgment

A declaration by a witness under oath, as that given before a court or deliberative body.

Something indicative; an indication or set of indications

All such declarations, spoken or written, offered in a legal case or deliberative hearing.

The means by which an allegation may be proven, such as oral testimony, documents, or physical objects.

Evidence in support of a fact or assertion; proof.

The set of legal rules determining what testimony, documents, and objects may be admitted as proof in a trial.

A public declaration regarding a religious experience.

To indicate clearly; exemplify or prove

In the Bible, the stone tablets inscribed with the Ten Commandments.

Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.

The ark containing these tablets.

(legal) Anything admitted by a court to prove or disprove alleged matters of fact in a trial.

(legal) Statements made by a witness in court.

One who bears witness.

An account of first-hand experience.

A body of objectively verifiable facts that are positively indicative of, and/or exclusively concordant with, that one conclusion over any other.

(religion) In a church service (or religious service), a personal account, such as one's conversion, testimony of faith, or life testimony.

(transitive) To provide evidence for, or suggest the truth of.

Witness; evidence; proof of some fact.

That which makes evident or manifest; that which furnishes, or tends to furnish, proof; any mode of proof; the ground of belief or judgement; as, the evidence of our senses; evidence of the truth or falsehood of a statement.

A solemn declaration or affirmation made for the purpose of establishing or proving some fact.

One who bears witness.

Affirmation; declaration; as, these doctrines are supported by the uniform testimony of the fathers; the belief of past facts must depend on the evidence of human testimony, or the testimony of historians.

That which is legally submitted to competent tribunal, as a means of ascertaining the truth of any alleged matter of fact under investigation before it; means of making proof; - the latter, strictly speaking, not being synonymous with evidence, but rather the effect of it.

Open attestation; profession.

To render evident or clear; to prove; to evince; as, to evidence a fact, or the guilt of an offender.

Witness; evidence; proof of some fact.

Your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief;

The two tables of the law.

An indication that makes something evident;

Hence, the whole divine revelation; the sacre Scriptures.

(law) all the means by which any alleged matter of fact whose truth is investigated at judicial trial is established or disproved

To witness; to attest; to prove by testimony.

Provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes;

A solemn statement made under oath

Provide evidence for;

An assertion offering firsthand authentication of a fact;

Give evidence;

Something that serves as evidence;