Definition of proof

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Proof (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..

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Overproof :: Overproof (a.) Containing more alcohol than proof spirit; stronger than proof spirit; that is, containing more than 49.3 per cent by weight of alcohol..
High-proof :: High-proof (a.) So as to stand any test.
Disproval :: Disproval (n.) Act of disproving; disproof.
Accumulation :: Accumulation (n.) The concurrence of several titles to the same proof.
Stetted :: Stet (subj. 3d pers. sing.) Let it stand; -- a word used by proof readers to signify that something once erased, or marked for omission, is to remain..
Touch :: Touch (v.) Hence, examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality..
Self-evident :: Self-evident (a.) Evident without proof or reasoning; producing certainty or conviction upon a bare presentation to the mind; as, a self-evident proposition or truth..
Warrant :: Warrant (n.) To support by authority or proof; to justify; to maintain; to sanction; as, reason warrants it..
Refutation :: Refutation (n.) The act or process of refuting or disproving, or the state of being refuted; proof of falsehood or error; the overthrowing of an argument, opinion, testimony, doctrine, or theory, by argument or countervailing proof..
Bead Proof :: Bead proof () A degree of strength in alcoholic liquor as shown by beads or small bubbles remaining on its surface, or at the side of the glass, when shaken..
Approbation :: Approbation (n.) Proof; attestation.
Revisal :: Revisal (n.) The act of revising, or reviewing and reexamining for correction and improvement; revision; as, the revisal of a manuscript; the revisal of a proof sheet; the revisal of a treaty..
Autonomy :: Autonomy (n.) The sovereignty of reason in the sphere of morals; or man's power, as possessed of reason, to give law to himself. In this, according to Kant, consist the true nature and only possible proof of liberty..
Proof :: Proof (a.) Being of a certain standard as to strength; -- said of alcoholic liquors.
Monstration :: Monstration (n.) The act of demonstrating; proof.
Refute :: Refute (v. t.) To disprove and overthrow by argument, evidence, or countervailing proof; to prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; as, to refute arguments; to refute testimony; to refute opinions or theories; to refute a disputant..
Say :: Say (n.) Tried quality; temper; proof.
Shame-proof :: Shame-proof (n.) Shameless.
Shellproof :: Shellproof (a.) Capable of resisting bombs or other shells; bombproof.
Lecture :: Lecture (n.) A reprimand or formal reproof from one having authority.
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