Definition of Evidentiary

1. Adjective. Pertaining to or constituting evidence. "An evidentiary fact"

Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Partainyms: Evidence
Derivative terms: Evidence

2. Adjective. Serving as or based on evidence. "Its evidentiary value"
Exact synonyms: Evidential
Similar to: Important, Significant
Derivative terms: Evidence, Evidence

Definition of Evidentiary

1. a. Furnishing evidence; asserting; proving; evidential.

Definition of Evidentiary

1. Adjective. (legal) Of or pertaining to ''evidence''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Evidentiary

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Evidentiary

evicts
evidence
evidence-based medicine
evidenced
evidenceless
evidencer
evidencers
evidences
evidencing
evident
evidential
evidentialist
evidentially
evidentiarily
evidentiary (current term)
evidentiate
evidently
evidentness
evidents
evil
evil-minded
evil eye
evil eyes
evil genius
evil laugh
evil laughs
evil laughter
evil spirit
evil twin

Literary usage of Evidentiary

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Code Remedies: Remedies and Remedial Rights by the Civil Action According to by John Norton Pomeroy, Thomas Ashford Bogle (1904)
"Test to distinguish them from evidentiary Facts. ... On the other hand, the evidentiary matter, the mass of subordinate facts and circumstances which must ..."

2. Handbook of the Law of Evidence by John Jay McKelvey (1907)
"CHARACTER AS AN evidentiary FACT. 12O. In certain cases, where a mental state or condition is a material fact In issue, and where character has a peculiarly ..."

3. Criminal Justice & Community Response to Rape by Joel Epstein (1995)
"evidentiary Issues Presenting corroborating evidence, anticipating the defense counsel's efforts to circumvent rape shield laws, using experts as witnesses, ..."

4. Evidence in Athenian Courts by Robert Johnson Bonner (1905)
"By the time of the Orators the evidentiary character of the party oath had disappeared, and both parties, as a matter of course, swore to their pleadings. ..."

5. The Principles of Judicial Proof: As Given by Logic, Psychology, and General by John Henry Wigmore (1913)
"Inference is the persuasive effect of each evidentiary fact, regarded separately, as to its Probandum. Proof (or Disproof) is the persuasive effect of a ..."

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