-mony

1. Bitterness or harshness of temper, manner, or speech.
2. Emotional bitterness.

1. Property inherited from one’s father or ancestors.
2. Property endowed to an institution, as a church.
3. Anything inherited, as a trait or character.

1. Evidence given by a competent witness under oath or affirmation in a court of law; as distinguished from evidence derived from writings, and other sources.
2. Something that supports a fact or a claim.
3. A public profession of Christian faith or religious experience.

It is stated that under Roman law no man was admissible as a witness unless his testicles were present as evidence or “witnesses” of one’s virility because only verified men were allowed to give witness, or to testify, in legal matters.

To swear by one’s testicles was an ancient form of oath. To detest, at root, means “to bear witness against;” therefore, "to curse", and implicitly, "to hate to the bottom of one’s testicles".

In common legal parlance, "testimony" and "evidence" are synonymous. Testimony properly means only such evidence as is delivered by a witness on the trial of a cause either orally or in the form of affidavits or depositions.

The orchido unit of orchido family-related words.