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counter-evidence

counter-evidence is the alternative form of counterevidence.

Meaning of counterevidence

Noun

counterevidence (countable and uncountable, plural counterevidences)

  1. Evidence which tends to disprove a claim or hypothesis.
    • Having been strongly pressed to do so, I gave counter-evidence, and I believe, in the opinion of the Commission, demolished the Doctor a second time.1838, David King, “Two lectures, in reply to the speeches of Dr. Chalmers on church extension”, in Hume Tracts, Glasgow: David Robertson, page 21

Forms of counter-evidence

pluralcounter-evidences

Questions about counter-evidence

What is counter-evidence the alternative form of?
Counter-evidence is the alternative form of counterevidence.

Words near counter-evidence in the dictionary

  1. Counter-Enlightenment
  2. Counter-Enlightenments
  3. counter-entropic
  4. counter-ermine
  5. counter-espionage
  6. counter-evidence
  7. counter-evidences
  8. counter-finalities
  9. counter-finality
  10. counter-flory
  11. counter-genocide

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Adapted from Wiktionary: counter-evidence (page history and authors); counterevidence (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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