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Definition of Hearsays
1. hearsay [n] - See also: hearsay
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hearsays
Literary usage of Hearsays
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Judicial Evidence by Jeremy Bentham, Etienne Dumont (1825)
"POWER OF DIRECT AND RETROGRADE INVESTIGATION IN A CHAIN OF hearsays. Rule 1.
IN a chain of evidence founded on hearsay, recourse must be had, ..."
2. On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle, John Chester Adams (1907)
"pages, nomenclatures and scientific hearsays, — this, the ancient earnest soul,
as yet unencumbered with these things, did for itself. ..."
3. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"The three letters said to be dictated by his lordship, and wrote by Kelly to lord
Marr, Dillon, and the Pretender. 1. hearsays. 4. ..."
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