evince

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If anything, what the post and subsequent comments evince is the fact that the relatively small group of people involved in developing digital campaigns and implementing interactive technology for them can be pretty open when it comes to sharing ideas and insights, even if it might help out the other side (within limits, of course).

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

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  • The sentiments now so universally expressed in relation to Mr. Henry, evince, that the age of party resentment has passed away and that that of the noblest gratitude has taken its place. —  Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry
  • They evince, on the whole, a far greater acquaintance with the English classic-models, and with the laws of rhyme and melody, than could have been expected from a young man of your class— macte virtute puer . —  Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet
  • If anything, what the post and subsequent comments evince is the fact that the relatively small group of people involved in developing digital campaigns and implementing interactive technology for them can be pretty open when it comes to sharing ideas and insights, even if it might help out the other side (within limits, of course). —  ClickZ News Blog
  • However offensive the remarks of these writers, to describe their suppression as a measure of police, was both disingenuous and absurd Alarmed by the threats of prosecution, the author of the "Gibeonite libel" presented an apology in the following supplicating terms:--"We avow our readiness to preserve inviolate the best and most endeared interests of this community; and we trust that, before misanthropy again can rally his vituperative legions to assault us, we may re-evince to all how staunch is our allegiance, and how sullyless our zeal at the post of probity!" —  The History of Tasmania, Volume I
  • [83 83] It is often the case that animals find themselves amid surroundings in which they are required to evince original ideation and fail so to do. —  The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals
 

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

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  1. = French évincer = Italian evincere, dispossess, evict, from Latin evincere, overcome, conquer, prevail over, recover one's property by a judicial decision (see evict), succeed in proving, convince, from e, out, + vincere, conquer: see vanquish, victor.
 

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