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Adduce vs Conclude - What's the difference?

adduce | conclude |

In lang=en terms the difference between adduce and conclude

is that adduce is to bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege while conclude is to come to a conclusion, to a final decision.

As verbs the difference between adduce and conclude

is that adduce is to bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege while conclude is to end; to come to an end.

adduce

English

Verb

  • To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.
  • :* Reasons ... were adduced on both sides. - .
  • :* Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration. - .
  • :* Whoever in discussion adduces authority, uses not reason but memory. -
  • :* For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, -

    • Synonyms

    * present * allege * advance * cite * quote * assign * urge * name * mention

    Related terms

    * adduct * adduction

    References

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    conclude

    English

    Verb

    (conclud)
  • To end; to come to an end.
    • The story concluded with a moral.
  • To bring to an end; to close; to finish.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • I will conclude this part with the speech of a counsellor of state.
  • To bring about as a result; to effect; to make.
    • to conclude a bargain
  • * Shakespeare
    • if we conclude a peace
  • To come to a conclusion, to a final decision.
    • From the evidence, I conclude that this man was murdered.
  • * Tillotson
    • No man can conclude God's love or hatred to any person by anything that befalls him.
  • (obsolete) To make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide.
  • * Addison
    • But no frail man, however great or high, / Can be concluded blest before he die.
  • To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar;generally in the passive.
    • The defendant is concluded by his own plea.
    A judgment concludes the introduction of further evidence.
  • * Sir M. Hale
    • If therefore they will appeal to revelation for their creation they must be concluded by it.
  • (obsolete) To shut up; to enclose.
  • * Hooker
    • The very person of Christ [was] concluded within the grave.
  • (obsolete) To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace.
  • * Bible, Romans xi. 32
    • For God hath concluded all in unbelief.
  • * Bible, Gal. iii. 22
    • The Scripture hath concluded all under sin.
  • (logic) to deduce, to infer (develop a causal relation)

    • Derived terms

    * concluder * concludable * conclusion * conclusive * conclusible

    Antonyms

    * (to end) begin, initiate, start