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evince(v.)

c. 1600, "disprove, confute," from French évincer "disprove, confute," from Latin evincere "conquer, overcome subdue, vanquish, prevail over; elicit by argument, prove," from assimilated form of ex "out" (see ex-) + vincere "to overcome" (see vincible). The meaning "show clearly" is late 18c. Not clearly distinguished from its doublet, evict, until 18c. Related: Evinced; evinces; evincing; evincible.

also from c. 1600

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evict(v.)

mid-15c., "recover (property) by judicial means," from Latin evictus, past participle of evincere "overcome and expel, conquer, subdue, vanquish; prevail over; supplant," from assimilated form of ex "out," or perhaps here merely intensive (see ex-) + vincere "conquer" (see vincible).

The sense of "expel by legal process" first recorded in English 1530s, from a post-classical sense of the Latin word. Related: Evicted; evicting. Compare evince.

vincible(adj.)

1540s, "capable of being conquered or vanquished," from French vincible and directly from Latin vincibilis "which can be gained; easily maintained," from vincere "to overcome, conquer."

According to Watkins this is from a nasalized form of PIE root *weik- (3) "to fight, conquer." But de Vaan reports it from the similar PIE root meaning "to bend; tie" (see *weik- (2)) and notes, " 'to bend' can easily develop into 'overcome, conquer' (one bending the other) or 'give in, yield' (the one being bent by the other)."

Related: Vincibility. A vincible ignorance in theology is an ignorance in one who possesses the means of overcoming it.

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