1. The quality or state of being evident or clear; clearness, evidentness; = EVIDENCE sb. 1.
1533. trans. Erasmus’ Com. Crede, 150 b. Payntyng setteth the thing forth to the eye … and perfourmeth that euidencie makynge the thynge manifeste.
1592. trans. Junius on Rev. xvii. 8. So I expound the words of the Apostle for evidency sake.
1611. Bible, Prov. viii. Argt. The fame, 6 and euidencie of wisedome.
2. Indication, mark, sign, token; = EVIDENCE sb. 3.
1586. T. Bright, A Treatise of Melancholie, xxxvi. 206. These things being matters of iudgement … & consisting of euidencie to be knowen of others.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., III. xxv. 178. These are not dead when they cease to move or afford the visible evidencies of life.
1813. Examiner, 25 April, 266/1. Surer evidencies of the immortality of man.
