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EVIDENTIARY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does evidentiary mean?
• EVIDENTIARY (adjective)
The adjective EVIDENTIARY has 2 senses:
1. pertaining to or constituting evidence
2. serving as or based on evidence
Familiarity information: EVIDENTIARY used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pertaining to or constituting evidence
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Context example:
an evidentiary fact
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Pertainym:
evidence (an indication that makes something evident)
Derivation:
evidence (an indication that makes something evident)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Serving as or based on evidence
Synonyms:
evidential; evidentiary
Context example:
its evidentiary value
Similar:
important; significant (important in effect or meaning)
Derivation:
evidence (your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief)
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