Dictionary

adduce en · VERB

Pronunciation

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• /əˈdʒuːs/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /əˈd(j)uːs/ (General-American)
• /əˈdjuːs/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From Middle English adducen, from Latin addūcere, adductum (“to lead or bring to”), from ad- + dūcere (“to lead”). See duke, and compare adduct.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case.
   • Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration. 1840, Thomas de Quincey, "Style" (published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, July 1840
   • Near-synonyms: (all sometimes synonymous) advance, allege, assign, aver, cite, instance, mention, name, point out, plead, present, put forward, quote, urge
   • But he adduces many recent facts, such as the overhead wiring in 1959 for electric working of the ex-S.E.R. Angerstein's Wharf branch. 1962 October, “New Reading on Railways: London Railways. By Edwin Course. Batsford. 35s.”, in Modern Railways, unnumbered page:
   • Both the rise and fall of the Stalinist regimes can be adduced against the Manifesto: the former, because what came into being was so inimical to human liberation, the latter because whether one supported or opposed it, it failed. 2022, China Miéville, chapter 5, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC:
   • Reasons […] were adduced on both sides. 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
   • For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, […] 1859 November 24, Charles Darwin, “Introduction”, in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 2:
2. (transitive) To produce as proof.
   • At this juncture, he sought to establish the awareness of the activity; to that end, he then adduced the receipts from the transactions of June 30th.

Forms

Deriveds

adduceable · adducement · adducible · readduce · adducer

Synonyms

assign · aver · name · put forward · point out · plead · quote · urge · present · cite · mention · advance · instance · allege

Translations (23)

fi esittää (to bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration) · cs předložit (to bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration) · ru приводи́ть (to bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration) · ca adduir (to bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration) · it addurre (to bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration) · bg привеждам (to bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration) · fi tuoda esiin (to bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration) · gl aducir (to bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration) · cmn 援引 (to bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration) · es aducir (to bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration) · cmn 引證 /引证 (to bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration) · nl aanhalen (to bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration) · pt aduzir (to bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration) · cs uvést (to bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration) · ru представля́ть (to bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration) · uk представля́ти (to bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration) · sh iznijeti (to bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration) · uk наводи́ти (to bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration) · cmn 引用 (to bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration) · bg изтъквам (to bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration) · nl aanvoeren (to bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration) · hu felhoz (to bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration) · fa برهان آوردن (to bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration)