evidence

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an indication that makes something evident

   Their trembling was evidence of their fear.

2. 2
   noun

   Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.

   There is no evidence that anyone was here earlier.

3. 3
   noun

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   One who bears witness.

   infamous and perjured evidences

5. 5
   verb

   To provide evidence for, or suggest the truth of.

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

6. 6
   noun

   your basis for belief or disbelief

7. 7
   noun

   (law) all the means by which any alleged matter of fact whose truth is investigated at judicial trial is established or disproved

8. 8
   verb

   provide evidence for

Etymology

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