adduce
C2CEFR level
80/100Rarity: very rare
FormalRegister
General verb
To cite something, especially evidence or an example, as proof in support of an argument.
The historian adduces parish records to date the settlement.
Law verb
To put forward evidence or arguments for the court's consideration.
Counsel adduced three expert reports to rebut the causation defence.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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