evidence
An evidentiary ruling by the judge authorized the defence team to proceed.
She believed that the documents had sufficient evidentiary value.
Some evidentiary rules are designed to protect civil liberties.
The police conducted a search of the house, but nothing of evidentiary value was discovered.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Proving and disproving
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attest
authenticate
demonstrable
demonstrably
demonstration of something
dispel
disprove
non-evidence
probatory
proof positive
provability
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verify
vindicate
vindication
vindicative
vindicatory

Examples of evidentiary

evidentiary
When such actions and policies usurp the decisions of others and limit liberty without a sound evidentiary base, significant ethical boundaries are crossed.
First, adaptationists often use inappropriate evidentiary standards for identifying adaptations and their functions.
They provide evidentiary criteria that can be used to determine possible adaptations.
The evidentiary community in favour of local languages was lacking in this context.
The evidentiary community focused on more than only the public ; they targeted the government directly.
However, as the author himself notes, the evidentiary link between handedness and hemispheric dominance for language is still tenuous.
It aims to strengthen the evidentiary base used for a particular set of funding decisions and enhance its use in related processes.
Its adherence is most marked, however, not in the selection of evidentiary detail but in its reproduction of the commissioners' mode of enquiry.
Thus, we also discuss the ways in which even the best adaptationist evidentiary standards can fail to identify adaptation (sect. 4).
Administrative measures also attempted to demonstrate the evidentiary rationale.
For this reason, those who propose that agents have acted outside the bounds of structural constraints must bear the evidentiary burden of proof.
To use a homely metaphor, the policy cart was firmly planted out in front of the evidentiary horse.
The dementia patient can have no evidentiary autonomy, because limited capacity renders him less capable than others of deciding what is in his best interest.
Any trait that satisfies the rigorous evidentiary standards of the special design approach is highly likely to be an adaptation for the proposed function.
Even if special design cannot be convincingly demonstrated, rigorous attempts to meet this evidentiary standard can produce novel scientific contributions.
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