bear out

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English

Etymology

From Middle English beren out, dissimilated from earlier Middle English outberen, equivalent to bear +‎ out.

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bear out (third-person singular simple present bears out, present participle bearing out, simple past bore out, past participle borne out)

  1. (transitive) To corroborate, prove, or confirm; to demonstrate; to provide evidence for.
    It was a promising idea, but the evidence did not bear out their theory.
    • 1985, John Haugeland, Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 255:
      Time has borne McCarthy out; but see Schank (1983) for a plea that learning should now be reactivated as a central research topic.
    • 2019 December 17, Howard Davies, “Will the UK really turn into 'Singapore-on-Thames' after Brexit?”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:
      But the idea that Singapore is a deregulated paradise is not borne out by reality, as anyone who has tried to dispose of a piece of used chewing gum there will know.
  2. To maintain and support to the end; to defend to the last.
    • 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, 6th edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: J Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, , published 1727, →OCLC:
      It is company only that can bear a man out in an ill thing
    • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter XXVI, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 128:
      If, then, to meanest mariners, and renegades and castaways, I shall hereafter ascribe high qualities, though dark ; weave round them tragic graces ; if even the most mournful, perchance the most abased, among them all, shall at times lift himself to the exalted mounts ; if I shall touch that workman's arm with some ethereal light ; if I shall spread a rainbow over his disastrous set of sun ; then against all mortal critics bear me out in it, thou just spirit of Equality, which hast spread one royal mantle of humanity over all my kind ! Bear me out in it, thou great democratic God !
  3. (intransitive, of a horse) To move quickly and sharply in an outward direction during a race; to veer out.
    That horse always bears out on the turns.

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