Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending to prove; having the power to demonstrate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Tending to prove; having the power to demonstrate; demonstrative; indicative.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Tending to prove; having the power to demonstrate; demonstrative; indicative.
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Examples
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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.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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These, especially the latter, were urged with every species of cruelty -- a mode of attempting to proselyte, evincive of human folly.
Sermons on Various Important Subjects Andrew Lee
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I have preferred to consider the report and resolutions as evincive only of the deep interest felt by the house of delegates in the common cause, and of its desire to afford counsel and assistance in the discovery and removal of hindrances and abuses tending to lessen the strength and efficiency of our armies.
Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia, for the Called Session of 1863. Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates 1863
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The occasion required that his measures should be firm, but prudent and conciliatory, -- evincive of his fixed determination to oppose any rash proceedings, but calculated to assuage the irritation which was excited, and to restore confidence in government.
qms commented on the word evincive
His style he supposes evincive
Of glories of sultans and princes,
But gilding is crass
In alloy with brass,
Evincing but snickers and winces.
July 31, 2018