evidence
verb
- provide proof for, proven/proving
noun
- anything presented in support of an assertion
- body of facts in a legal proceding
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈɛv.ɪ.dəns/ / /ˈɛv.ə.dəns/ / [ˈɛv.ɪ.ɾɪns]
noun
Etymology: From Middle English evidence, from Old French [Term?], from Latin evidentia (“clearness, in Late Latin a proof”), from evidens (“clear, evident”); see evident.
- Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
“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.”
- Anything admitted by a court to prove or disprove alleged matters of fact in a trial.
“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.”
- One who bears witness.
“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.”
- A body of objectively verifiable facts that are positively indicative of, and/or exclusively concordant with, that one conclusion over any other.
verb
Etymology: From Middle English evidence, from Old French [Term?], from Latin evidentia (“clearness, in Late Latin a proof”), from evidens (“clear, evident”); see evident.
- To provide evidence for, or suggest the truth of.
“She was furious, as evidenced by her slamming the door.”
“That he was a great locomotive engineer, it would be foolish to deny or even to qualify; that he was also extremely pig-headed is fairly evidenced by David Joy, who in his 'Diaries' said that Stroudley always wanted his way 'to the last nut and bolt.'”