Adduce Definition

ə-do͝os, ə-dyo͝os
adduced, adduces, adducing
verb
adduced, adduces, adducing
To cite as an example or means of proof in an argument.
American Heritage
To give as a reason or proof; cite as an example.
Webster's New World
To compile or offer, generally in the context of introducing evidence at trial.
Webster's New World Law
To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.
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Origin of Adduce

  • From Latin adducere, adductum (“to lead or bring to”), from ad- + ducere (“to lead”). See duke, and confer adduct.

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin addūcere to bring to ad- ad- dūcere to lead deuk- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Adduce Sentence Examples

  • Again, the respondent did not adduce evidence to refute this.

  • The Jesuits themselves deny the existence of any such body, and are able to adduce the negative disproof that no provision for it is to be found in their constitutions.

  • We shall adduce only one or two glaring examples of Herr Grün 's slipshod method of translation.

  • We must now consider the arguments by which determinists attack the position of their opponents and the evidence which they adduce to show that the freedom of the will is no necessary postulate for moral action.

  • He then proceeds to adduce elaborate and sometimes slightly grotesque reasons tending to prove that mathematical knowledge is essential in theology, and closes this section of his work with two comprehensive sketches of geography and astronomy.

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Words Starting With

AADADD

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ECEUCE

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