evincive

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adjective

That proves or demonstrates

Scrabble 16

Meanings

adjectiveevincive (comparative more evincive, superlative most evincive)

comparative more evincive · superlative most evincive

  1. That proves or demonstrates

    These, especially the latter, were urged with every species of cruelty--a mode of attempting to proselyte, evincive of human folly.

    1812, Andrew Lee, Sermons on Various Important Subjects
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    There was nothing of disorganization, nothing of procrastination, nothing evincive of a temper to embarrass or obstruct the public business.

    1923, Daniel Webster, The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster

    That slaveholders are not insensible to public opinion and to the value of a good character was strikingly exhibited by Mr. Calhoun, in his place in the Senate of the United States, when he followed his frank disclaimer of all suspicion, that the abolitionists are meditating a war against the slaveholder's person, with remarks evincive of his sensitiveness under the war, which they are waging against the slaveholder's character.

    1838, American Anti-Slavery Society, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4

    Synonyms: demonstrative, indicative

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveThat proves or demonstrates

Origin

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