evidence

Academic Word List, sublist 1.

About 132.54 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.

   There is no demonstrative evidence that anyone was here earlier.

2. noun Anything admitted by a court to prove or disprove alleged matters of fact in a trial.
3. noun One who bears witness.
4. noun A body of objectively verifiable facts that are positively indicative of, and/or exclusively concordant with, that one conclusion over any other.
5. verb To provide evidence for, or suggest the truth of.

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

Similar words

prove ascertain demonstrate certify attest tell bear witness manifest testify show

Often followed by

of that for to is in from and on

Word family

evidenced evidences evidencing evident evidential evidently