Evidence

/ˈɛv.ɪ.dəns/ · noun

Meaning

Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion..

Definitions by Sense

1. Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
2. (law) Anything admitted by a court to prove or disprove alleged matters of fact in a trial.
3. One who bears witness.
4. A body of objectively verifiable facts that are positively indicative of, and/or exclusively concordant with, that one conclusion over any other.
5. (transitive) To provide evidence for, or suggest the truth of.

Example Sentences

There is no evidence that anyone was here earlier.

We have enough cold hard evidence in that presentation which will make a world of pain for our parasitic friends at Antarctica.

In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

We find material evidences of magical practices in the European caves of the Palæolithic age[.]

Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.

The Supreme Court, in an order that no justice publicly opposed last week, said the administration needs to “facilitate” Mr. Ábrego García’s release from Salvadoran custody. There has been no evidence that the Trump administration has been making that effort.

For Lothian and Borders Police, the early-morning raid had come at the end one of biggest investigations carried out by the force, which had originally presented a dossier of evidence on the murder of Jodi Jones to the Edinburgh procurator-fiscal, William Gallagher, on 25 November last year.

infamous and perjured evidences

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• evidences
• evidencing
• evidenced

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