"evidentiary" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Latin ēvidentia + -ary.",
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          "word": "evidentiarily"
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          "word": "evidentiary abuse affidavit"
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          "word": "evidentiary phase"
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          "text": "Evidentiary investigations are common in legal proceedings.",
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          "ref": "2021 October 1, Robin Craig, “In term-opener, justices will hear Mississippi’s complaint that Tennessee is stealing its groundwater”, in SCOTUSblog:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "Of or pertaining to evidence."
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        "(law) Of or pertaining to evidence."
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  "word": "evidentiary"
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          "ref": "2021 October 1, Robin Craig, “In term-opener, justices will hear Mississippi’s complaint that Tennessee is stealing its groundwater”, in SCOTUSblog:",
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