adduce
verb (used with object)
to bring forward in argument or as evidence; cite as pertinent or conclusive.
had adduced
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past perfectof adduce.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Mr. Trumbull, who had charge of the bill, analyzed the President's argument with consummate ability and readily answered him on every point of Constitutional law which he had adduced.
From Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by James Gillespie Blaine
I really could not comprehend my credulity of the previous evening, or how I could have been led by the Judge's excitement to regard as facts the arguments he had adduced.
From The Lonely House by Adolph Streckfuss
Bristow left her with the assurance that he and Braceway would make the best possible use of her theory and the facts she had adduced.
From The Winning Clue by James Hay
He was curious concerning some of the facts I had adduced, particularly as to the Midland line and the country it served.
From Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland by Joseph Tatlow
Of course he had adduced all that he knew of his domestic haunted chamber, but had found himself uncertain as to the amount of direct or trustworthy evidence.
From Chantry House by Charlotte Mary Yonge
