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Definition & Synonyms
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• Proof
- (a.) Being of a certain standard as to strength; -- said of alcoholic liquors.
- (n.) Any effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.
- (n.) That degree of evidence which convinces the mind of any truth or fact, and produces belief; a test by facts or arguments that induce, or tend to induce, certainty of the judgment; conclusive evidence; demonstration.
- (v. t.) Armor of excellent or tried quality, and deemed impenetrable; properly, armor of proof.
- (n.) A process for testing the accuracy of an operation performed. Cf. Prove, v. t., 5.
- (a.) Firm or successful in resisting; as, proof against harm; waterproof; bombproof.
- (n.) The quality or state of having been proved or tried; firmness or hardness that resists impression, or does not yield to force; impenetrability of physical bodies.
- (a.) Used in proving or testing; as, a proof load, or proof charge.
- (n.) A trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination; -- called also proof sheet.
- (n.) Firmness of mind; stability not to be shaken.
Synonyms:
Substantiation, Validation,
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• Proof-proof
- (a.) Proof against proofs; obstinate in the wrong.
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• Proof-arm
- (v. t.) To arm with proof armor; to arm securely; as, to proof-arm herself.
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