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evince

UK/iˈvɪns/US/iˈvɪns/
verbC2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechleans written

Other forms: evinced, evinces, evincing

To evince is to show a feeling or quality clearly. Evince no interest, evince surprise, evinced a talent for it.

It is formal and belongs to reports and to nineteenth-century fiction, and it means displaying without saying. The Latin means to prove conclusively, which is a stronger sense than the modern one.

Definitions of evince

  1. 1verbevinceTo show a feeling or quality clearly.C2

    “Her calm voice evinced no sign of the fear she must have felt.”

evince is a showing.

Where it comes from

Latin evincere means to prevail over or prove conclusively, from ex plus vincere, to conquer.

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *weyk-

  2. Latin

    ēvincō — conquer entirely, prevail over; prove exhaustively

  3. Middle French

    évincer

  4. English, today

    evince

Built from

  • vincō · Latin — conquer

From Middle French évincer, from Latin ēvincō (“conquer entirely, prevail over; prove exhaustively”), from ē- (short form of ex-) + vincō (“conquer”). a doublet of evict.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire

Practise this word

evince in the wild

  • The existence of sobriquets can evince key historical details and dynamics.

    Sobriquet

  • Although the building's architecture has been described as a generic "Victorian", many of its components evince clear Romanesque Revival themes.

    Ransley Apartment Building

  • Parts of the landscape are recognizable as examples of picturesque cemetery design, and many 19th century markers evince characteristics of funerary art common during the Rural Cemetery Movement.

    Bloomfield Cemetery

  • The seal depicts two seated figures, a tree, and a serpent, and was formerly believed to evince some connection with Adam and Eve from the Book of Genesis.

    Adam and Eve cylinder seal

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the vincō family

convincevanquish

evince — used too rare to measure · point at the bar for the others