Synonyms:
certificate, certification, credential, credentials
Meaning: a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts
Usage examples
"You have my certificate in your hand with the rest, you know, and will reserve my place.
It carries an authentic certificate of its origin, for the mother invariably occupies it.
It is a similar certificate, enabling him and his daughter and her child, at any time, to pass the barrier and the frontier!
First," he put his hand in his coat, and took another paper from it, "that is the certificate which enables me to pass out of this city.
At the same time, drawing his certificate book from his pocket, he begged the inspector to have the goodness to write him "a bit of an attestation."
He promised to conduct her to England-he did.-O, Madam, you know the rest!-Disappointed of the fortune he expected, by the inexorable rancour of the Duvals, he infamously burnt the certificate of their marriage, and denied that they had ever been united.
Beneath these lines was written in another hand: "See note above--nothing can be done." He compared the writing in the bracket with the writing of the certificate placed beneath Morrel's petition, and discovered that the note in the bracket was the same writing as the certificate--that is to say, was in Villefort's handwriting.