evidentialityn.

1837 London Mercury 26 Mar. 224/1 Some modern follower of the renowned Jeremy Bentham would, doubtless, have sprung forward with a new rationale of evidence, founded on the principles of cat-evidentiality.

1911 H. M. Kallen tr. H. Gross Criminal Psychol. ii. §63. 306 Paradoxical as it sounds, we must never forget that there is a kind of evidentiality in the form of beauty itself.

1979 Novel 12 106 The impossibility of proving anything, of living when you have to create your own evidence, where the evidentiality of human relationships is up to you.

2000 Times Higher Educ. Suppl. (Nexis) 13 Oct. 34 I agree that for some purposes the ‘is it true?’ question is not appropriate and that textual analysis can reveal truths that have nothing to do with evidentiality.

1980 J. L. Vantine Aspects Kitsai Phonol. (M.A. thesis, Univ. of Manitoba) i. 11 The form may, in addition, be optionally inflected for categories denoting possession, benefaction, tense, evidentiality, [etc.].

1990 Speculum 65 31 Evidentiality covers a range of distinctions involved in the identification of the source of one's knowledge.

2003 A. Y. Aikhenvald in A. Y. Aikhenvald & R. M. W. Dixon Stud. in Evidentiality i. 1 In a number of languages, the nature of the evidence on which a statement is based must be specified for every statement—whether the speaker saw it, or heard it, or inferred it from indirect evidence, or learnt it from someone else. This grammatical category, referring to an information source, is called ‘evidentiality’.