Adduce
verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege. transitive
"Reasons […] were adduced on both sides."
- 2 advance evidence for wordnet
- 3 To produce in proof. transitive
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More examples"Such abundance I accept apparent in this country, such top moral values, humans of such caliber, that I do not anticipate we would anytime beat this country, unless we breach the actual courage of this nation, which is her airy and cultural heritage, and, therefore, I adduce that we alter her old and age-old apprenticeship system, her culture, for if the Indians anticipate that all that is adopted and English is acceptable and greater than their own, they will lose their self-esteem, their built-in self-culture and they will become what we ambition them, an absolutely bedevilled nation."
Etymology
From Middle English adducen, from Latin addūcere, adductum (“to lead or bring to”), from ad- + dūcere (“to lead”). See duke, and compare adduct.
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