evidence
your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,550 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 11,815 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.006% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief also: grounds the evidence that smoking causes lung cancer is very compelling
- an indication that makes something evident his trembling was evidence of his fear
- (law) all the means by which any alleged matter of fact whose truth is investigated at judicial trial is established or disproved
verb
- provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes also: attest, certify, manifest, demonstrate His high fever attested to his illnessThe buildings in Rome manifest a high level of architectural sophistication
- provide evidence for also: testify, bear witness, prove, show The blood test showed that he was the fatherHer behavior testified to her incompetence
- give evidence also: tell he was telling on all his former colleague
evidence in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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The detective might take it as an evidence against him.
The Abandoned Room · Wadsworth Camp · Chapter 1
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Stupefied with astonishment, the poor woman still refused to admit the evidence.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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As an occasional lecturer before his townsfolk, he gave evidence of wide reading and literary aptitudes.
The Crown of Life · George Gissing · Chapter 1
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Here in New-York, it would be difficult to upset such evidence, but elsewhere the result might be different.
Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870 · Various · Chapter 1
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In it, however, that loveable freshness of personality, which his philosophical dejection never quenched, is everywhere in evidence.
John Marr and Other Poems · Herman Melville · Chapter 1