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evidence

noun
/ˈɛv.ɪ.dəns/UK/ˈɛv.ɪ.ɾɪns/US/ˈev.ɪ.dəns/

Etymology

From Middle English evidence, from Old French [Term?], from Latin evidentia (“clearness, in Late Latin a proof”), from evidens (“clear, evident”); see evident.

  1. derived from evidentia
  2. inherited from evidence

Definitions

  1. 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.
    • 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.

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

  3. 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.
    • In the mean time, Cluffe had arrived. He was a little bit huffed and grand at being nailed as an evidence, upon a few words carelessly, or, if you will, confidentially dropped at his own mess-table, […]
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. A body of objectively verifiable facts that are positively indicative of, and/or…

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

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

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

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Derived

after-discovered evidence, anecdotal evidence, best evidence rule, chain of evidence, circumstantial evidence, clear and convincing evidence, counter-evidence, counterevidence, demurrer to evidence, direct evidence, empirical evidence, evidence-based, evidence-based medicine, evidence-gathering, evidenceless, evidence tampering, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, hearsay evidence, in evidence, inevidence, neuroevidence, nonevidence, preponderance of evidence, preponderance of the evidence, pseudoevidence, self-evidence, state's evidence, turn king's evidence, turn queen's evidence, webidence

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at evidence. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at evidence. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at evidence

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA