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EVINCE

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Give expression to

Example:

She showed her disappointment

Synonyms:

evince; express; show

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "evince" is one way to...):

convey ((of information) make known; pass on)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "evince"):

sneer (express through a scornful smile)

connote; imply (express or state indirectly)

burst out (give sudden release to an expression)

evoke; paint a picture; suggest (call to mind)

imply (suggest as a logically necessary consequence; in logic)

give (manifest or show)

exude (make apparent by one's mood or behavior)

give vent; vent; ventilate (give expression or utterance to)

articulate; formulate; give voice; phrase; word (put into words or an expression)

accent; accentuate; emphasise; emphasize; punctuate; stress (to stress, single out as important)

menace (express a threat either by an utterance or a gesture)

beam (express with a beaming face or smile)

smile (express with a smile)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Credits

 Context examples: 

Miss Ingram, I am sure you will not fail in evincing superiority to idle terrors.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The wolf-dogs, clustered on the far side of the fire, snarled and bickered among themselves, but evinced no inclination to stray off into the darkness.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Though Edmund was much more displeased with his aunt than with his mother, as evincing least regard for her niece, he could not help paying more attention to what she said; and at length determined on a method of proceeding which would obviate the risk of his father's thinking he had done too much, and at the same time procure for Fanny the immediate means of exercise, which he could not bear she should be without.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He quite shook hands with me—which was a violent proceeding for him, his usual course being to slide a tepid little fish-slice, an inch or two in advance of his hip, and evince the greatest discomposure when anybody grappled with it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"What now? What sudden eagerness is this you evince? What are you going to do?"

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

How could it be otherwise, when Helen, at all times and under all circumstances, evinced for me a quiet and faithful friendship, which ill-humour never soured, nor irritation never troubled?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Some of them are unmannered, rough, intractable, as well as ignorant; but others are docile, have a wish to learn, and evince a disposition that pleases me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He did not abstain from conversing with me: he even called me as usual each morning to join him at his desk; and I fear the corrupt man within him had a pleasure unimparted to, and unshared by, the pure Christian, in evincing with what skill he could, while acting and speaking apparently just as usual, extract from every deed and every phrase the spirit of interest and approval which had formerly communicated a certain austere charm to his language and manner.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was a wailing child this night, and a laughing one the next: now it nestled close to me, and now it ran from me; but whatever mood the apparition evinced, whatever aspect it wore, it failed not for seven successive nights to meet me the moment I entered the land of slumber.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Should any little accidental disappointment of the appetite occur, such as the spoiling of a meal, the under or the over dressing of a dish, the incident ought not to be neutralised by replacing with something more delicate the comfort lost, thus pampering the body and obviating the aim of this institution; it ought to be improved to the spiritual edification of the pupils, by encouraging them to evince fortitude under temporary privation.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)