evidence
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
evidence (uncountable)
- Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
- 1748, David Hume, ''An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
- 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.
- 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.
- 1748, David Hume, ''An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
- (legal) Anything admitted by a court to prove or disprove alleged matters of fact in a trial.
- One who bears witness.
- 1822, [Walter Scott], Peveril of the Peak. [...] In Four Volumes, volume (
please specify ), Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., OCLC 2392685 ↗: - 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer, volume 1, page 53:
- 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.
- A body of objectively verifiable facts that are positively indicative of, and/or exclusively concordant with, that one conclusion over any other.
- French: preuve
- German: Beweis, Indiz
- Italian: prova, evidenza
- Portuguese: evidência, prova
- Russian: доказа́тельство
- Spanish: prueba
- French: preuve
- German: Beweismittel, Indiz
- Portuguese: evidência
- Russian: ули́ка
- Spanish: prueba, evidencia
evidence (evidences, present participle evidencing; past and past participle evidenced)
- (transitive) To provide evidence for, or suggest the truth of.
- She was furious, as evidenced by her slamming the door.
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