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Direct evidence   /dərˈɛkt ˈɛvədəns/   Listen
Direct evidence

noun
1.
Evidence (usually the testimony of a witness) directly related to the fact in dispute.





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"Direct evidence" Quotes from Famous Books



... every purse. Other factories turned out amulets and charms. Magical texts, the preparation of the body, the construction of the grave—all things were done by regular crafts. The cheapening of the apparatus is most striking. At the same time all but the poorest burials bear direct evidence of their character ...
— The Egyptian Conception of Immortality • George Andrew Reisner
... No doubt, direct evidence of seeds being carried great distances through the air is wanted, but, I am afraid, can hardly be obtained. Yet I feel the greatest confidence that they are so carried. Take for instance the two peculiar orchids of the Azores (Habinaria species): what ...
— Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 (of 2) • James Marchant
... adroit. He's one of the craftiest spies the Admiralty has ever had to deal with. We can get no direct evidence against him. Neither do we know his exact whereabouts. He's like some nasty slug—you can only tell where he's been by the slime he leaves behind. Of course, he has one or ...
— The Hero of Garside School • J. Harwood Panting
... fear. Striking a light, he carefully washed the blood from his hands, and disarraying himself of the cast-off clothing which he had assumed for the occasion, thrust them into the fire, and watched until the whole was entirely consumed. Having thus guarded against direct evidence, he made some artful dispositions of negative disproof, that he might be provided with full armor against all suspicions; and then retiring to his homely bed with a feelingless heart, and unmurmuring conscience, ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 • Various
... The direct evidence furnished by fossil remains is by all odds the strongest evidence that we have in favor of organic evolution. Paleontology holds the incomparable position of being able to point directly to the evidence showing that the animals ...
— A Critique of the Theory of Evolution • Thomas Hunt Morgan
... to Hank. "This isn't as simple as it looks. We have no direct evidence that these men belonged ...
— The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries • Francis Rolt-Wheeler
... the dirtiest, hottest and dustiest town I ever visited—for eighteen months, and none of them had wanted a bath, I believed from that moment all the stories I had heard about their butcheries and atrocities, stories which I had verified later by more direct evidence. ...
— Cuba in War Time • Richard Harding Davis
... intended to exculpate Mr. Burr from the charge of intriguing to obtain the presidency; and the letter that he (Ogden) writes for this purpose is direct evidence against his party in Congress, that they intrigued with Burr to obtain him for President, and employed him (Ogden) for the purpose. To save Aaron, he betrays Moses, and then turns informer against ...
— The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Complete - With Index to Volumes I - IV • Thomas Paine


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