different between evince vs controvert

English

Etymology

From French évincer, from Latin ?vinc? (“conquer entirely, prevail over; prove exhaustively”), from ?- (short form of ex- (intensive prefix)) + vinc? (“conquer”). Doublet of evict.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i?v?ns/, /??v?ns/, /??v?ns/
• Rhymes: -?ns

Verb

evince (third-person singular simple present evinces, present participle evincing, simple past and past participle evinced)

1. (transitive) To show or demonstrate clearly; to manifest.
   • 1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist, London: J. Cadwell for J. Crooke, Physiological Considerations, p. 32

     For You will find in the Progress of our Dispute, that I had some reason to question the very way of Probation imploy'd both by Peripateticks and Chymists, to evince the being and number of the Elements.

   • 1815, Mungo Park, Travels in the Interior of Africa, Cassell: 1893, Chapter VI, [1]

     ‘That unless all the people of Kasson would embrace the Mohammedan religion, and evince their conversion by saying eleven public prayers, he, the king of Foota-Torra, could not possibly stand neuter in the present contest, but would certainly join his arms to those of Kajaaga.’

   • 1925, DuBose Heyward, Porgy, London: Jonathan Cape, 1928, pp. 89-90, [2]

     As the game proceeded it became evident that Porgy's luck was with him; he was the most consistent winner, and Sportin' Life was bearing most of the burden. But the mulatto was too good a gambler to evince any discomfiture.

   • 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings, New York: Vintage, 1999, p. 169,

     When Mrs C. described this to me the next day she shuddered all over, but also evinced, in her manner and choice of words, an unmistakable relish.

   • 1992, Adam Thorpe, Ulverton, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1994, p. 239,

     Bare reportage cannot convey the deep hatred sometimes evinced between men through the simplest address.

Derived terms

• evincible

Related terms

• evict
• eviction
• convince

Translations

Anagrams

• Venice

Italian

Verb

evince

1. third-person singular present indicative of evincere

Anagrams

• invece

Latin

Verb

?vince

1. second-person singular present active imperative of ?vinc?

English

Etymology

From post-classical Latin controvertere (6th century), from Latin contro- (“against”) + vertere (“to turn”).

Verb

controvert (third-person singular simple present controverts, present participle controverting, simple past and past participle controverted)

1. (transitive) To dispute, to argue about (something). [from 16th c.]
2. (transitive) To argue against (something or someone); to contradict, to deny. [from 16th c.]
   • 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Penguin 2004, p. 234:

     [T]hat women from their education and the present state of civilized life, are in the same condition, cannot, I think, be controverted.

3. (intransitive) To be involved or engaged in controversy; to argue. [from 17th c.]

Related terms

• controversial
• controversialist
• controversy
• controverter
• controvertible
• incontrovertible

Translations

Further reading

• controvert in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• controvert in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.