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adduce

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Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
12
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/əˈd(j)uːs/
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/əˈd(j)uːs/ · /əˈdjuːs/ · /əˈdʒuːs/

Definition of adduce

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.
    “Reasons […] were adduced on both sides.”
    “Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration.”
    “For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, […]”
    “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.”
    “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.”
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verb

  1. (transitive)To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.
    “Reasons […] were adduced on both sides.”
    “Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration.”
    “For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, […]”
    “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.”
    “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.”
  2. (transitive)To produce in proof.

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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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