MEANING
Concerning evidence or the standards by which it is used to support a claim.
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- evidentiary basis
- evidentiary standard
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The conclusion lacked a clear evidentiary basis.
She distinguished the evidentiary standard from the strength of her personal belief.
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Primary category: academic. Forms: Normally non-gradable; no ordinary comparative or superlative. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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