Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To show or demonstrate clearly; manifest.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To overcome; conquer.
- To show clearly or make evident; make clear by convincing evidence; manifest; exhibit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To conquer; to subdue.
- transitive verb To show in a clear manner; to prove beyond any reasonable doubt; to manifest; to make evident; to bring to light; to evidence.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
show ordemonstrate clearly; tomanifest .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb give expression to
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The craving for "the return of day," which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light, the remembrance of the relief which a variety of objects before the eye affords to the harassed sick mind.
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How many, who are called Christians, do by these sin evince that they are still under the reign and dominion of sin, still in the condition that they were born in.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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His writings in general play, not printed, called evince a sound understanding, a Gay (f Warwicke.
Biographia dramatica, or, A companion to the playhouse: 1782
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a disposition to steady industry be encouraged to cultivate the ground: let such as evince any aptitude for mechanics be taught some handicraft, and congregated in villages, wherever favourable situations can be found -- and there is no want of them.
Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume II. (of 2) John M'lean
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Instead, it is a more general phenomenon as many Americans, including many whites whose ancestors immigrated several generations ago, evince a connection between their sense of ethnic identity and various manifestations of their religiosity.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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The pride such an event will evince in some quarters -- though, admittedly, not in others -- should not be underestimated.
Robert Eisenman: Ultimatums Work -- Sarkozy and Cameron Intervene Robert Eisenman 2011
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The pride such an event will evince in some quarters -- though, admittedly, not in others -- should not be underestimated.
Robert Eisenman: Ultimatums Work -- Sarkozy and Cameron Intervene Robert Eisenman 2011
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The pride such an event will evince in some quarters -- though, admittedly, not in others -- should not be underestimated.
Robert Eisenman: Ultimatums Work -- Sarkozy and Cameron Intervene Robert Eisenman 2011
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He has sharply escalated his profile in recent weeks, however, by invoking India's Gandhian tradition of fasting to evince political change.
India's Anti-Corruption Leaders Renew Government Pressure 2011
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He has sharply escalated his profile in recent weeks, however, by invoking India's Gandhian tradition of fasting to evince political change.
India's Anti-Corruption Leaders Renew Government Pressure 2011
reallifepixel commented on the word evince
to exhibit
Origin:
1600–10; < L ēvincere to conquer, overcome, carry one's point, equiv. to ē- e- + vincere to conquer
February 4, 2009
qroqqa commented on the word evince
The terse etymology below hardly explains it. The literal sense in Latin was "conquer, overcome", and it was also used in a transferred sense "prevail, succeed" in doing something, in particular "prevail in an argument, demonstrate". English in the 17th century used the word in various senses like this, but these dropped out of use in favour of the weaker modern sense "be evidence of (not necessarily conclusively)".
February 4, 2009