different between vouch vs evince

English

Etymology

From Middle English vouchen, that borrowed from Old French voucher, from Latin voc?re, present active infinitive of voc?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?va?t?/
• Rhymes: -a?t?

Verb

vouch (third-person singular simple present vouches, present participle vouching, simple past and past participle vouched)

1. To take responsibility for; to express confidence in; to witness; to obtest.
2. To warrant; to maintain by affirmations

   Synonyms: attest, affirm, avouch

   • October 28, 1705, Francis Atterbury, a sermon

     They made him ashamed first to vouch the truth of the relation, and afterwards to credit it.
3. To back; to support; to confirm.
4. To call into court to warrant and defend, or to make good a warranty of title.
5. (obsolete) To call; to summon.
   • 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke named the Governour

     [They] vouch (as I might say) to their aid the authority of the writers.

6. To bear witness; to give testimony or full attestation.
7. To call as a witness.
8. To assert; to aver; to declare.

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Related terms

• avouch

Translations

Noun

vouch (plural vouches)

1. Warrant; attestation.

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?