0 present participle of witness --
1 to see something happen, especially an accident or crime: --
2 When a place or period witnesses a particular event, the event happens in that place or during that period: --
Those years witnessed momentous changes throughout Europe.
This university has witnessed quite a few changes over the years.
3 to show or give proof of something: --
It can thus be said that we are witnessing the routinisation of multiparty elections.
Why are certain epochs characterised by hegemonic systems, when in others one has the impression of witnessing theoretical anarchy?
Further, witnessing partner violence in later developmental periods may compromise the child's contemporaneous adaptation as was found in the middle childhood years.
We are witnessing two different styles of learning, which have been defined as 'linear' and 'by immersion'.
In experimental paradigms, rhesus monkey subjects also pressed a bar to avoid witnessing the shock of a conspecific object.
Of the remaining third, one stopped pulling the chains altogether for 5 days and another for 12 days after witnessing the shock of the object.
Which is in essence how taxonomic autobiography could work, a process of witnessing which names the subject into objective being.
What we are witnessing is the replacement of bureaucracy by competitive politics : re-politicisation in a dual key.
