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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To show or demonstrate clearly; manifest: evince distaste by grimacing.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To overcome; conquer.
  2. To show clearly or make evident; make clear by convincing evidence; manifest; exhibit.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To show or demonstrate clearly; to manifest.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To conquer; to subdue.
  2. v. To show in a clear manner; to prove beyond any reasonable doubt; to manifest; to make evident; to bring to light; to evidence.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. give expression to

Etymologies

  1. Latin ēvincere, to prevail, prove; see evict.

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  • qroqqa 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)". Feb 4, 2009

  • reallifepixel to exhibit

    Origin:
    1600–10; < L ēvincere to conquer, overcome, carry one's point, equiv. to ē- e- + vincere to conquer Feb 4, 2009

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