EVINCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does evince mean? 

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

1. give expression to

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• EVINCE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they evince    ... he / she / it evinces   
Past simple: evinced   
Past participle: evinced   
-ing form: evincing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Give expression to

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

evince; express; show

Context example:

She showed her disappointment

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

convey ((of information) make known; pass on)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "evince"):

sneer (express through a scornful smile)

connote; imply (express or state indirectly)

burst out (give sudden release to an expression)

evoke; paint a picture; suggest (call to mind)

imply (suggest as a logically necessary consequence; in logic)

give (manifest or show)

exude (make apparent by one's mood or behavior)

give vent; vent; ventilate (give expression or utterance to)

articulate; formulate; give voice; phrase; word (put into words or an expression)

accent; accentuate; emphasise; emphasize; punctuate; stress (to stress, single out as important)

menace (express a threat either by an utterance or a gesture)

beam (express with a beaming face or smile)

smile (express with a smile)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

"Then you must prove it by evincing a good appetite; will you fill the teapot while I knit off this needle?"

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He now evinced displeasure at her repeated failures, and himself made a mighty spring upward.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

"I am afraid," replied Elinor, "that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety."

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

She was sensible of all the affection it evinced.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Thornton stood between him and Buck, and evinced no intention of getting out of the way.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

He nodded his head again, evincing even greater satisfaction than before.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He was determined to prevent it, if possible, though his mother, who equally heard the conversation which passed at table, did not evince the least disapprobation.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

They observed by my teeth, which they viewed with great exactness, that I was a carnivorous animal; yet most quadrupeds being an overmatch for me, and field mice, with some others, too nimble, they could not imagine how I should be able to support myself, unless I fed upon snails and other insects, which they offered, by many learned arguments, to evince that I could not possibly do.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I was not aware of it myself, but I felt it necessary to uphold the institutions of my county, and to evince a familiarity with them; so I shook my head, as much as to say, “I believe you!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I was easily led by the sympathy which he evinced to use the language of my heart, to give utterance to the burning ardour of my soul and to say, with all the fervour that warmed me, how gladly I would sacrifice my fortune, my existence, my every hope, to the furtherance of my enterprise.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)