About The Word Hearsay
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Hearsay
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What's The Definition Of Hearsay?
[n] gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth
[adj] heard through another rather than directly; "hearsay information" Synonyms | Synonyms for Hearsay: indirect | rumor | rumour Related Terms | Find terms related to Hearsay: absolute | adducible | admissible | attestative | attestive | authentic | based on | bruit | buzz | canard | certain | circumstantial | circumstantial evidence | collateral evidence | common talk | conclusive | convincing | corpus delicti | cry | cumulative | cumulative evidence | damning | decisive | determinative | direct evidence | documentary | documentary evidence | documented | evidence in chief | evidential | evidentiary | ex parte | ex parte evidence | extrinsic evidence | eye-witness | factual | final | firsthand | flying rumor | founded on | gossip | grapevine | grounded on | hearsay evidence | idea afloat | implicit | incontrovertible | incriminating evidence | indicative | indirect evidence | indisputable | intrinsic evidence | irrefutable | irresistible | latrine rumor | material | news stirring | nuncupative | on-dit | oral evidence | overwhelming | presumptive | presumptive evidence | prima facie evidence | probative | reliable | report | roorback | rumble | rumor | scuttlebutt | significant | suggestive | sure | symptomatic | talk | telling | town talk | unconfirmed report | valid | weighty | whisper | word-of-mouth evidence See Also | comment | gossip | scuttlebutt Hearsay In Webster's Dictionary \Hear"say`\, n.
Report; rumor; fame; common talk; something heard from
another.
Much of the obloquy that has so long rested on the
memory of our great national poet originated in
frivolous hearsays of his life and conversation.
--Prof.
Wilson.
{Hearsay evidence} (Law), that species of testimony which
consists in a a narration by one person of matters told
him by another. It is, with a few exceptions, inadmissible
as testimony. --Abbott.
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