OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 11476

proof

/pɹuːf/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
comprobación • constatación • demonstración • demostración • ejecutoria • evidencia • prueba
An effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.
1591, Edmund Spenser, Prosopopoia: or, Mother Hubbard's Tale, later also published in William Michael Rossetti, Humorous Poems, But the false Fox most kindly played his part, For w…
I need proof of your unconditional love. Lend me some dough.
prueba
The degree of evidence which convinces the mind of any truth or fact, and produces belief; a test by facts or arguments which induce, or tend to induce, certainty of the judgment; conclusive evidence; demonstration.
I'll have some proof.
It was a grand sentence of Emanuel Swedenborg, which would alone indicate the greatness of that man's perception, — "It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to confirm w…
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