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  • noun mathematics : Plural of proof.
  • noun samples of the copy and layout of a printed document for review by the author or a proofreader before mass printing

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Examples

  • I don't want what you call proofs -- though you'll want them badly if you mean to pursue your present line.

    Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House Anthony Hope 1898

  • So Richard brought forward what he called the proofs of the very intimate relations which had subsisted between Alice and his father.

    Richard I Makers of History Jacob Abbott 1841

  • To give you an idea of what going over galleys or page proofs is like, here's the list of corrections I am sending my editor and her noble editorial assistant for the first five chapters of Chill:

    and the painted ponies go up and down truepenny 2009

  • He had his proofs from the books, the books that had educated him beyond the Morse standard.

    Chapter 29 2010

  • You do believe in proofs even if not for Darwinism, do you not?

    Atheists Speak Out 2005

  • These were the earliest proofs from a given plate.

    Introduction to _The Keepsake_ 2000

  • Print sellers hawking proofs from the annuals displayed their goods on London street corners; some sold freestanding portfolio supports to display prints in one's drawing room.

    Introduction to _The Keepsake_ 2000

  • Gazette and The Athenaeum, one could purchase plain proofs of the book's illustrations without printed titles for two pounds, two shillings.

    Introduction to _The Keepsake_ 2000

  • He had his proofs from the books, the books that had educated him beyond the Morse standard.

    Chapter 29 1908

  • All that we call proofs are presumptions of different degrees of certainty.

    The Bride of Dreams Frederik van Eeden 1896

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