Definition of "adduce"

adduce

/əˈd(j)uːs/

verb
third-person singular simple present adduces, present participle adducing, simple past and past participle adduced
1. (transitive) To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.
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  Reasons […] were adduced on both sides.
  1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 12, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
  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, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], London: John Murray, […]
  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
2. (transitive, law, Scotland) To produce in proof.

Definition of "adduce"

adduce

verb

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