evidentiary

American  

[ev-i-den-shuh-ree] / ˌɛv ɪˈdɛn ʃə ri /

adjective

1. evidential.

2. Law. pertaining to or constituting evidence.

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Other Word Forms

• nonevidentiary adjective

Etymology

Origin of evidentiary

1800–10; < Latin ēvidenti ( a ) evidence + -ary

Example Sentences

The same mindset governs: evidentiary maximalism detached from clinical reality, indifference to patient urgency, and hostility to the flexibility Congress intended.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

He dismissed statements from prosecution witnesses as "assumption layered upon hearsay" and urged the judging panel to give them "negligible evidentiary weight".

From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026

It was a nonsense statement from an evidentiary point of view, but they took it, and here’s your puppy prison.

From Slate • Nov. 24, 2025

Judge William Fitzpatrick ordered interim US Attorney for Eastern Virginia Lindsey Halligan to turn over grand jury materials to Comey, noting that the evidentiary relief sought by his lawyers was “rarely granted.”

From Salon • Nov. 17, 2025

Though the case had never been solved, it had originally been a prime focus of investigators, and when I returned to New York, I gathered evidentiary material related to the crime.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann