evincive

[ ih-vin-siv ]

adjective

1. serving to evince; indicative.

Other Words From

• none·vincive adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of evincive¹

First recorded in 1800–10; evince + -ive

Example Sentences

A sentiment so evincive of magnanimity will be received by Congress with all the admiration and gratitude it merits, and will not cease to inspire me with that confidence in your Excellency, which greatness of mind seldom fails to excite.

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The occasion required that his measures should be firm, but prudent and conciliatory,—evincive of his fixed determination to oppose any rash proceedings, but calculated to assuage the irritation which was excited, and to restore confidence in government.

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These, especially the latter, were urged with every species of cruelty—a mode of attempting to proselyte, evincive of human folly.

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There was nothing of disorganization, nothing of procrastination, nothing evincive of a temper to embarrass or obstruct the public business.

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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.

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Related Words

• emblematic
• ominous
• suggestive
• symbolic
• symptomatic