Crossword-Solution: PROOF
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Proof | n. | Any effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial. |
| Proof | n. | That degree of evidence which convinces the mind of any truth or fact, and produces belief; a test by facts or arguments that induce, or tend to induce, certainty of the judgment; conclusive evidence; demonstration. |
| Proof | n. | The quality or state of having been proved or tried; firmness or hardness that resists impression, or does not yield to force; impenetrability of physical bodies. |
| Proof | n. | Firmness of mind; stability not to be shaken. |
| Proof | n. | A trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination; -- called also proof sheet. |
| Proof | n. | A process for testing the accuracy of an operation performed. Cf. Prove, v. t., 5. |
| Proof | v. t. | Armor of excellent or tried quality, and deemed impenetrable; properly, armor of proof. |
| Proof | a. | Used in proving or testing; as, a proof load, or proof charge. |
| Proof | a. | Firm or successful in resisting; as, proof against harm; waterproof; bombproof. |
| Proof | a. | Being of a certain standard as to strength; -- said of alcoholic liquors. |
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Sentences with PROOF (5)
THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF The pirate attack had been a complete surprise: a sure proof that the unscrupulous Hook had conducted it improperly, for to surprise redskins fairly is beyond the wit of the white man.
What fear we then? what doubt we to incense His utmost ire? which to the highth enrag’d, Will either quite consume us, and reduce To nothing this essential, happier farr Then miserable to have eternal being: Or if our substance be indeed Divine, And cannot cease to be, we are at worst On this side nothing; and by proof we feel Our power sufficient to disturb his Heav’n, And with perpetual inrodes to Allarme, Though inaccessible, his fatal Throne: Which if not Victory is yet Revenge.
Although this version has been proof-read, there are doubtless numerous residual transcription errors, some of which may be obvious even without reference to the original text.
The fact that he gave me any part of my wages was proof, to my mind, that he believed me entitled to the whole of them.
Spiritually and mentally, no less than socially, a commonplace general condition is no conclusive proof that a man has not potentialities above that level.
Quotes with PROOF (3)
I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.
The notion that we should promote “happy” or “humane” exploitation as “baby steps” ignores that welfare reforms do not result in providing significantly greater protection for animal interests; in fact, most of the time, animal welfare reforms do nothing more than make animal exploitation more economically productive by focusing on practices, such as gestation crates, the electrical stunning of chickens, or veal crates, that are economically inefficient in any event. Welfare …
A proof once established is better left so.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Tribune, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 124 times in crossword archives (1952–2024).