evidential
/ˌɛvɪˈdɛnʃ(ə)l
/adjective formal
Of or providing evidence: the evidential bases for her argument...
- But the comparators that can be of evidential value, sometimes determinative of the case, are not so circumscribed.
- It is said that the proven circumstances do not support an inference of confinement which is of evidential value in law.
- With the case approached that way, he submits that it is not necessary to plead the evidential estoppel.
Derivatives
evidentiality
- But in some languages, including Tariana, you always have to put a little suffix onto your verb saying how you know something - we call it ‘evidentiality’.
- In languages using a grammatical system known as evidentiality, for example, it's impossible to make a statement without also revealing why you believe that it's true.
- This grammatical category, referring to information source, is called ‘evidentiality’.
evidentially
- I am quite satisfied that this modest delay had had no effect on the cogency of the evidence and I do not consider the first defendants have been prejudiced evidentially in the smallest degree.
- Nevertheless there is no scope evidentially for a prosecution.
- So, both conceptually and evidentially, the last act within the defendant's control that gives the cause of complaint in relation evidentially closed.
Origin
Early 17th century: from medieval Latin evidentialis, from Latin evidentia (see evidence).