IN EVIDENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does in evidence mean? 

• IN EVIDENCE (adjective)
  The adjective IN EVIDENCE has 1 sense:

1. clearly to be seen

  Familiarity information: IN EVIDENCE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IN EVIDENCE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Clearly to be seen

Context example:

she made certain that her engagement ring was in evidence

Similar:

conspicuous (obvious to the eye or mind)

 Context examples 

“At the same time I must remain with my prisoner, and I am bound to warn him that anything he may say will appear in evidence against him.”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

What you say may be used in evidence.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

After the second day, recovered from seasickness, the full passenger list was in evidence, and the more he saw of the passengers the more he disliked them.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Oh, God, let these poor white hairs go in evidence of what he has suffered, who all his life has done no wrong, and on whom so many sorrows have come.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It came out in evidence that Colonel Moran and young Adair had, between them, won a considerable amount of money.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It came out in evidence that, in partnership with Colonel Moran, he had actually won as much as four hundred and twenty pounds in a sitting, some weeks before, from Godfrey Milner and Lord Balmoral.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)