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evidence

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noun/ˈɛv.ɪ.dəns//ˈɛv.ə.dəns/[ˈɛv.ɪ.ɾɪns]
  1. 1

    Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.uncountableusually

    • There is no demonstrative 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.
  2. 2

    Anything admitted by a court to prove or disprove alleged matters of fact in a trial.uncountableusually

    • 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-
  3. 3

    One who bears witness.uncountableusually

    • infamous and perjured evidences
    • He recapitulated the Sybil’s story word by word, with the air of a man who is cross-examining an evidence, and trying to make him contradict himself.
  4. 4

    A body of objectively verifiable facts that are positively indicative of, and/or exclusively concordant with, that one conclusion over any other.uncountableusually

verb/ˈɛv.ɪ.dəns//ˈɛv.ə.dəns/[ˈɛv.ɪ.ɾɪns]
  1. 1

    To provide evidence for, or suggest the truth of.transitive

    • She was furious, as evidenced by her slamming the door.

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