Thesaurus: proof

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1. n. Any effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. n. Firmness of mind; stability not to be shaken.
5. n. A trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination; -- called also proof sheet.
6. n. A process for testing the accuracy of an operation performed. Cf. Prove, v. t., 5.
7. v. t. Armor of excellent or tried quality, and deemed impenetrable; properly, armor of proof.
8. a. Used in proving or testing; as, a proof load, or proof charge.
9. a. Firm or successful in resisting; as, proof against harm; waterproof; bombproof.
10. a. Being of a certain standard as to strength; -- said of alcoholic liquors.
11. adj. (used in combination or as a suffix) able to withstand
12. n. any factual evidence that helps to establish the truth of something