ADDUCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does adduce mean? 

• ADDUCE (verb)
  The verb ADDUCE has 1 sense:

1. advance evidence for

  Familiarity information: ADDUCE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADDUCE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they adduce    ... he / she / it adduces   
Past simple: adduced   
Past participle: adduced   
-ing form: adducing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Advance evidence for

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

abduce; adduce; cite

Hypernyms (to "adduce" is one way to...):

bear witness; evidence; prove; show; testify (provide evidence for)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

She was tranquil, yet her tranquillity was evidently constrained; and as her confusion had before been adduced as a proof of her guilt, she worked up her mind to an appearance of courage.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

This he backed up with arguments regarding his complete recovery, and adduced his own existing sanity.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

His progress was a series of yelps, from which might have been adduced the number of rocks he encountered.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The only other evidence which I can adduce is from the log of the SS. Friesland, a Dutch-American liner, which asserts that at nine next morning, Start Point being at the time ten miles upon their starboard quarter, they were passed by something between a flying goat and a monstrous bat, which was heading at a prodigious pace south and west.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I don't think you have read ten pages of Spencer, but there have been critics, assumably more intelligent than you, who have read no more than you of Spencer, who publicly challenged his followers to adduce one single idea from all his writings—from Herbert Spencer's writings, the man who has impressed the stamp of his genius over the whole field of scientific research and modern thought; the father of psychology; the man who revolutionized pedagogy, so that to-day the child of the French peasant is taught the three R's according to principles laid down by him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The morning had been a quiet morning enough—all except the brief scene with the lunatic: the transaction in the church had not been noisy; there was no explosion of passion, no loud altercation, no dispute, no defiance or challenge, no tears, no sobs: a few words had been spoken, a calmly pronounced objection to the marriage made; some stern, short questions put by Mr. Rochester; answers, explanations given, evidence adduced; an open admission of the truth had been uttered by my master; then the living proof had been seen; the intruders were gone, and all was over.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

There is no evidence to adduce; and whether or not the man himself committed the murders there is now none to say.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

But I do not pretend that my protestations should acquit me; I rest my innocence on a plain and simple explanation of the facts which have been adduced against me, and I hope the character I have always borne will incline my judges to a favourable interpretation where any circumstance appears doubtful or suspicious.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)