Evidence vs Omen - What's the difference?
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Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
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, title= (legal) Anything admitted by a court to prove or disprove alleged matters of fact in a trial.
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, title= One who bears witness.
* Sir (Walter Scott)
To provide evidence for, or suggest the truth of.
Something which portends or is perceived to portend a good or evil event or circumstance in the future; an augury or foreboding.
* 1856 , (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
prophetic significance
To be an omen of.
To divine or predict from omens.
Evidence is a related term of omen.
As nouns the difference between evidence and omen
is that evidence is obviousness, clearness while omen is (adult male human).evidence
English
(wikipedia evidence)Noun
(en-noun)Pixels or Perish, passage=Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence , for explaining a theory, for telling a story.}}
Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer, passage=For Lothian and Borders Police, the early-morning raid had come at the end one of biggest investigations carried out by the force, which had originally presented a dossier of evidence on the murder of Jodi Jones to the Edinburgh procurator-fiscal, William Gallagher, on 25 November last year. }}
- infamous and perjured evidences
Derived terms
* anecdotal evidence * circumstantial evidence * evidence-based medicine * hearsay evidenceDerived terms
* after-discovered evidence * clear and convincing evidence * demurrer to evidence * preponderance of evidence, preponderance of the evidence * self-evidenceVerb
(evidenc)- She was furious, as evidenced by her slamming the door.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "evidence")External links
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Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia omen)- the ghost's appearance was an ill omen
- a rise in imports might be an omen of recovery
- the egg has, during the span of history, represented mystery, magic, medicine, food and omen
- Day broke. He saw three black hens asleep in a tree. He shuddered, horrified at this omen . Then he promised the Holy Virgin three chasubles for the church, and that he would go barefooted from the cemetery at Bertaux to the chapel of Vassonville.
- a sign of ill omen
