It's just a clumsy way of converting the adjective 'evidentiary' (relating
to evidence) into a noun. In legal circles they use 'evidentiary value' and
'evidentiary hearing'. Both the cited examples are from the US. It would
be interesting to know what the OUD thinks.
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