evincive

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English

Etymology

From evince +‎ -ive.

Adjective

evincive (comparative more evincive, superlative most evincive)

  1. Tending to prove; having the power to demonstrate; demonstrative; indicative.
    • 1923, Daniel Webster, The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster:
      There was nothing of disorganization, nothing of procrastination, nothing evincive of a temper to embarrass or obstruct the public business.
    • 1838, American Anti-Slavery Society, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4:
      That slaveholders are not insensible to public opinion and to the value of a good character was strikingly exhibited by Mr. Calhoun, in his place in the Senate of the United States, when he followed his frank disclaimer of all suspicion, that the abolitionists are meditating a war against the slaveholder's person, with remarks evincive of his sensitiveness under the war, which they are waging against the slaveholder's character.
    • 1812, Andrew Lee, Sermons on Various Important Subjects:
      These, especially the latter, were urged with every species of cruelty--a mode of attempting to proselyte, evincive of human folly.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for evincive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)