(countable) An effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.
I need proof of your unconditional love. Lend me some dough.
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(uncountable) The degree of evidence which convinces the mind of any truth or fact, and produces belief; a test by facts or arguments which induce, or tend to induce, certainty of the judgment; conclusive evidence; demonstration.
1591, Edmund Spenser, ''Prosopopoia: or, Mother Hubbard's Tale, later also published in William Michael Rossetti, [http://www.archive.org/stream/humorouspoems00ross/humorouspoems00ross_djvu.txt Humorous Poems''],
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The quality or state of having been proved or tried; firmness or hardness which resists impression, or does not yield to force; impenetrability of physical bodies.
: But the false Fox most kindly played his part,
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