evidents

Noun

evidence (usually uncountable, plural evidences)

1. (usually) Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
   • There is no demonstrative evidence that anyone was here earlier.
2. (usually) 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.2004 April 15, “Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer”, in The Scotsman
3. (usually) One who bears witness.
   • infamous and perjured evidences1822, [Walter Scott], Peveril of the Peak. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC
4. (usually) A body of objectively verifiable facts that are positively indicative of, and/or exclusively concordant with, that one conclusion over any other.

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