Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To show or demonstrate clearly; manifest: evince distaste by grimacing.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To overcome; conquer.
- To show clearly or make evident; make clear by convincing evidence; manifest; exhibit.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive To show or demonstrate clearly; to manifest.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. obsolete To conquer; to subdue.
- 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
- v. give expression to
Etymologies
- From French evincer (old spelling of évincer), from Latin ēvincere, present active infinitive of ēvincō ("conquer entirely, prevail over; prove exhaustively"), from ē, short form of ex, + vincō ("conquer"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin ēvincere, to prevail, prove; see evict. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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.”
“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)
“His writings in general play, not printed, called evince a sound understanding, a Gay (f Warwicke.”
Internet Archive: Biographia dramatica, or, A companion to the playhouse:
“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)
“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.”
“He has sharply escalated his profile in recent weeks, however, by invoking India's Gandhian tradition of fasting to evince political change.”
Voice of America: India's Anti-Corruption Leaders Renew Government Pressure
“The pride such an event will evince in some quarters -- though, admittedly, not in others -- should not be underestimated.”
The Huffington Post: Robert Eisenman: Ultimatums Work -- Sarkozy and Cameron Intervene
“The mutual fund assets are expected to evince interest from a number of fund houses, including Goldman Sachs Asset Management Co., it said, citing the person.”
“But they don't evince the same weariness and exhaustion as many Rabbis, sustained as they are with colossal bonuses that make them feel appreciated.”
The Huffington Post: Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Absence of Gratitude is the Source of Clerical Burnout
“Let's not get too general when talking about chapulines, as they are pretty much unheard of in northern México and evince about the same response in norteños as they do in the majority of gringos.”
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abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abject, abjure, abscission, abscond, abstemious, abstinence, abysmal, accretion and 787 more...
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cicatrix
scar tissue
minatory, naira, Cluniac, embracive, prolix, hierophant, timorous, adduce, veracious, dysphoric, sang-froid, vitiate and 503 more...
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abrogate, abstemious, abstract of law, alderman, apocryphal, apostasy, apoplexy, apotheosis, apposite, aver, decorous, apprehensive and 51 more...
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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