adduce

present singular third person adduces · participle present adducing · participle past adduced · past adduced

1. transitiveTo bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case.

   Near-synonyms: (all sometimes synonymous) advance, allege, assign, aver, cite, instance, mention, name, point out, plead, present, put forward, quote, urge

   5 more examples

   Reasons […] were adduced on both sides.

   1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC

   Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration.

   1840, Thomas de Quincey, "Style" (published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, July 1840

   For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, […]

   1859 November 24, Charles Darwin, “Introduction”, in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 2

   But he adduces many recent facts, such as the overhead wiring in 1959 for electric working of the ex-S.E.R. Angerstein's Wharf branch.

   1962 October, “New Reading on Railways: London Railways. By Edwin Course. Batsford. 35s.”, in Modern Railways, unnumbered page

   Both the rise and fall of the Stalinist regimes can be adduced against the Manifesto: the former, because what came into being was so inimical to human liberation, the latter because whether one supported or opposed it, it failed.

   2022, China Miéville, chapter 5, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC

   Synonyms: advance, allege, assign, aver, cite, instance, mention, name

2. transitivelawTo produce as proof.

   At this juncture, he sought to establish the awareness of the activity; to that end, he then adduced the receipts from the transactions of June 30th.