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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
evidence/ˈevɪdəns/

▶noun information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid.

■ Law information drawn from personal testimony, a document, or a material object, used to establish facts in a legal investigation or admissible as testimony in a law court.

■ signs; indications.

▶verb be or show evidence of.

– phrases
in evidence noticeable; conspicuous.
turn King's (or Queen's or US state's) evidence Law (of a criminal) give information in court against one's partners in order to receive a less severe punishment.

– origin ME: via OFr. from L. evidentia, from evident- (see evident).

'evidence' also found in these Oxford entries:

adduce - adversarial - affidavit - alibi - argue - attest - bespeak - betray - call - circumstantial - cite - clue - come - compellable - conclusive - court of record - cover - degenerate - depose - deposition - different - disproof - document - documentation - evidential - evince - examination-in-chief - exhibit - ex silentio - fact - falsify - fit - frame - go - hearing - hearsay - historic - hypothesis - ignoramus - ill-founded - inadmissible - infer - inference - internal evidence - irrecusable - Judges' Rules - jury - King's evidence - letters rogatory

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