evince \ ih-VINSS
\ verb
1: to constitute
outward evidence of
2: to display
clearly : reveal
EXAMPLES:
Melanie evinced an
interest in art at an early age, so no one was surprised when she grew up to be
an award-winning illustrator.
"You have to
make it easy for your customer to buy—as evinced by another example from my
trip through Italy."
— Dorie Clark, Forbes, May 27, 2014
DID YOU KNOW?
Let us
conquer any uncertainty you may have about the history of "evince."
It derives from Latin "evincere," meaning "to vanquish" or
"to win a point," and can be further traced to "vincere,"
Latin for "to conquer." In the early 1600s, "evince" was
sometimes used in the senses "to subdue" or "to convict of
error," meanings evincing the influence of its Latin ancestors. It was
also sometimes used as a synonym of its cousin "convince," but that
sense is now obsolete. One early meaning, "to constitute evidence
of," has hung on, however, and in the 1800s it was joined by another
sense, "to reveal."
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