[onlybeforenoun] tested and shown to be true:
a student of proven ability * It is a proven fact that fluoride strengthens growing teeth.
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not proven (in Scottish law) a VERDICT (= decision) at a trial that there is not enough evidence to show that sb is guilty or innocent, and that they must be set free
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