Evidence
['evɪd(ə)ns] or ['ɛvɪdəns]
Definition
(noun.) your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief; 'the evidence that smoking causes lung cancer is very compelling'.
(noun.) an indication that makes something evident; 'his trembling was evidence of his fear'.
(noun.) (law) all the means by which any alleged matter of fact whose truth is investigated at judicial trial is established or disproved.
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Definition
(n.) That which makes evident or manifest; that which furnishes, or tends to furnish, proof; any mode of proof; the ground of belief or judgement; as, the evidence of our senses; evidence of the truth or falsehood of a statement.
(n.) One who bears witness.
(n.) That which is legally submitted to competent tribunal, as a means of ascertaining the truth of any alleged matter of fact under investigation before it; means of making proof; -- the latter, strictly speaking, not being synonymous with evidence, but rather the effect of it.
(v. t.) To render evident or clear; to prove; to evince; as, to evidence a fact, or the guilt of an offender.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Testimony, proof, ground of belief.
v. a. Prove, elucidate, demonstrate, show, manifest, evince, make manifest, make clear.
Editor: Theresa
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Manifestation, attraction, averment, testimony, deposition, declaration,appearance, sign, token, proof, indication, exemplification, illustration
ANT:Surmise, conjecture, counterevidence, disproof, refutation, concealment,suppression, misindication, fallacy
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Examples
- The Swiss deposits contain clear evidence of such catastrophes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Mr. Batchelor's judgment and good sense were always in evidence. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- End of Penelope's evidence--and very pretty and convincing, too. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- In the fewest words, the Sergeant showed them the evidence of the footmarks, and told them that a fatal accident must have happened to her. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- A wealth of evidence could be adduced to support this from the studies of dreams and fantasies made by the Freudian school of psychologists. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- We had evidence of that. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- No human evidence would ever have been able to persuade Martin Yorke that he blushed when thus addressed; yet blush he did, to the ears. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- To say the least, this evidenced great ability and enterprise on the part of the youth. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This has been evidenced by the fact that in the United States alone nearly eleven thousand patents on ploughs were issued during the nineteenth century. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The idea of attributing great successes to genius has always been repudiated by Edison, as evidenced by his historic remark that Genius is 1 per cent. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But it lacked any agency for securing the development of its ideal as was evidenced in its falling back upon Nature. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He must have been, however, a man of originality, as evidenced by his attempt to age whiskey by electricity, an attempt that has often since been made. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- That these early attempts were all unsuccessful is evidenced by the fact that at the great World’s Fair in London in 1851, the United Kingdom could not present a single reaping machine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Johnson, the latter made allusion to Edison's genius as evidenced by some of his achievements, when Edison replied: Stuff! Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In consequence of this law, when Memphis was occupied the provost-marshal had forcibly collected all the evidences he could obtain of such debts. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- We have had the vague consciousness of assisting at a great development whose evidences to-day on every hand attest its magnitude. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Again and again they have given evidences of goodwill. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This I reached about morning and entering the first enclosure I came to I searched for some evidences of a habitation. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Their thoats were found wandering upon the sea bottom and evidences of a bloody conflict were discovered nearby. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Nothing, indeed, thought I, as I struggled to repress a sob, and hastily wiped away some tears, the impotent evidences of my anguish. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Opening it they found a crude message printed almost illegibly, and with many evidences of an unaccustomed task. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- To this self-evidencing knowledge of the whole the faculty of mind is supposed to correspond. Plato. The Republic.
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