adduce
verbUS /əˈd(j)uːs/ · UK /əˈdjuːs/
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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To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case.
- Near-synonyms: (all sometimes synonymous) advance, allege, assign, aver, cite, instance, mention, name, point out, plead, present, put forward, quote, urge
- Reasons […] were adduced on both sides.1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
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- Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration.1840, Thomas de Quincey, "Style" (published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, July 1840
- For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, […]1859 November 24, Charles Darwin, “Introduction”, in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 2:
- But he adduces many recent facts, such as the overhead wiring in 1959 for electric working of the ex-S.E.R. Angerstein's Wharf branch.1962 October, “New Reading on Railways: London Railways. By Edwin Course. Batsford. 35s.”, in Modern Railways, unnumbered page:
- Both the rise and fall of the Stalinist regimes can be adduced against the Manifesto: the former, because what came into being was so inimical to human liberation, the latter because whether one supported or opposed it, it failed.2022, China Miéville, chapter 5, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC:
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Law To produce as proof.
- At this juncture, he sought to establish the awareness of the activity; to that end, he then adduced the receipts from the transactions of June 30th.
- Derived terms
- adduceable, adducement, adducer, adducible, readduce