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Webster 1913 Edition
Evincive
E-vin′cive
,Adj.
Tending to prove; having the power to demonstrate; demonstrative; indicative.
Webster 1828 Edition
Evincive
EVIN'CIVE
,Adj.
Definition 2024
evincive
evincive
English
Adjective
evincive (comparative more evincive, superlative most evincive)
- Tending to prove; having the power to demonstrate; demonstrative; indicative.
- 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.