| 词汇 | deponent |
| 释义 | deponent noun[ C ] LAWuk /dɪˈpəʊnənt/us someone who states in writing or by speaking as a witness in a court of law that something is true: The court may order the deponent to attend for cross-examination. Examples of deponentdeponent Accepting that they are narratives whose veracity is questionable, she shows how deponents used words in order to position themselves in particular ways. All testimony came from ' deponents ' adduced by the claimant. A number of deponents saw his charitable countenance as a cynical attempt at self-preservation. This may help explain why older male deponents are significantly more numerous than their female counterparts. The composition of deponents is influenced on the one hand by the kind of litigation involved and on the other by contemporary prejudices. The older deponents could extend this analysis back in time over several decades. His discussion of the age distribution of deponents fails to make any observations regarding the nature of the evidence. This prejudice against female deponents becomes much more marked through the course of the fifteenth century, such that numerous sixteenth-century matrimonial causes entirely lack female deponents. In these materials on conversion, there is, of course, the possibility that deponents mentioned the lapses of their neighbours and their own courage in an attempt to deflect potential criticisms. Although more systematic analysis of the status of the deponents would have been desirable, it is unlikely that it would have undermined the thrust of what is a compelling argument. When deponents made a distinction, they seem to have thought of a ' pew ' as somewhat grander than the alternatives, being either more raised, more fixed or more enclosed. All would depend upon the means of knowledge possessed by the deponents. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In some cases it is because the deponents have not stated what their means of knowledge are. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The court reporter keeps a copy of the documents provided to the deponent during the deposition for document identification questions. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Some deponent verbs, such as "sequ" (to follow), use the corresponding forms of other verbs to express a genuine passive meaning. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. See all examples of deponent These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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