Word of the Day 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.
Posted on: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 15:10:50 +0000
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