evidential
noting, pertaining to, serving as, or based on evidence.
Origin of evidential
1Other words from evidential
- ev·i·den·tial·ly, adverb
- non·ev·i·den·tial, adjective
- un·ev·i·den·tial, adjective
Words Nearby evidential
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How to use evidential in a sentence
When detectives discovered that the message was “a pure coincidence … of no evidential value,” reporters refused to believe them.
Did Reporters From News of the World Impede a British Police Investigation? | Charlotte Edwardes | January 24, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTOf all the apparent coincidences I have noticed between Shakspere's previous plays and the essays, none has any evidential value.
Montaigne and Shakspere | John M. RobertsonEach was wedded to a system of thought according to which signs on earth were of no evidential value.
Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of Matthew | John Monro GibsonThey are as evidential of manufacture or of creation or of any other process of intelligent mind.
The Other Side of Evolution | Alexander PattersonSuch an occurrence can be evidential only when the hair changes color demonstrably in the case of a witness.
Criminal Psychology | Hans Gross
(a) Logic is, according to Schiel the science of evidence—not of finding evidence but of rendering evidence evidential.
Criminal Psychology | Hans Gross
British Dictionary definitions for evidential
/ (ˌɛvɪˈdɛnʃəl) /
relating to, serving as, or based on evidence
Derived forms of evidential
- evidentially, adverb
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