evidence
• noun 1 information or signs indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid. 2 Law information used to establish facts in a legal investigation or admissible as testimony in a law court. • verb be or show evidence of. — PHRASES in evidence noticeable; conspicuous. turn King’s (or Queen’s or US state’s) evidence Law (of a criminal) give information in court against one’s partners in order to receive a less severe punishment. — ORIGIN Latin evidentia, from evidens ‘obvious to the mind or eye’.
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