Meanings
- USlawOf or pertaining to evidence.
Evidentiary investigations are common in legal proceedings.
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This issue led to an interim battle among the parties to exclude various expert witnesses regarding the aquifer's hydrogeology and a five-day evidentiary hearing before Special Master Eugene Siler in May 2019.
2021 October 1, Robin Craig, “In term-opener, justices will hear Mississippi’s complaint that Tennessee is stealing its groundwater”, in SCOTUSblogSynonyms: evidential · Antonyms: nonevidentiary
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adjectiveserving as or based on evidence
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evidentiary. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/evidentiary
“evidentiary.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/evidentiary. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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