Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality of being inevident; lack of evidence; obscurity.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Lack of evidence; obscurity.

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  • noun obsolete Lack of evidence; obscurity.

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  • adjective clearly to be seen

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in- +‎ evidence

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Examples

  • As Professor Jeremy Black writes in his latest book, “The Dotted Red Line”: Indeed, appeasement was as much inevidence over Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968, as over Austria and Czechoslovakia in 1938.

    "Never glad confident morning again" Helen 2006

  • The spiritual sight of some is very weak, and their views of the glory of God in Christ are much obscured with inevidence, darkness, and instability.

    Christologia 1616-1683 1965

  • It is not so much the inevidence of marks and fruits that makes them doubt, as the misapprehension of the thing itself, for as long as they mistake it in its own nature, no sign, no mark, can satisfy in it.

    The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640

  • Secondly, I say to such souls, that it is the mistake of the very nature of faith that leads them to such perplexities, and causeth such inevidence.

    The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640

  • But that I do not speak of now, because that is the sealing of the Spirit after believing, and because you are always unsettled in the first and main point, of flying unto the Son, and waiting on him for life, therefore have you so much inevidence and weakness in that which follows.

    The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640

  • There is a wisdom in some men, that despiseth the simplicity, or the inevidence (185) of the gospel, and accounts it foolishness, the carnal mind will needs start out from implicit trusting of God, when once it is possessed with some imagination of wisdom, therefore how many are the insurrections of men’s spirits against God’s absolute power over the creatures, against the mysteries of the holy

    The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640

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