proving

Speech parts

1. proving - Noun

2. proving - Verb

Meaning

of Prove

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

shew using show evidence test telltale rise determine showing establish testing trial trying experiment proof
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Antonyms

covering hiding breathing masking concealing murmuring
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Phrases with the word

burden of proving onus of proving duty of proving proving nothing

Examples

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. E. B. White

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. John Kenneth Galbraith

There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be. Emil Cioran

The thinking man always finds himself in a gigantic orphanage in which people are continually proving to him that he has no parents. Thomas Bernhard

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. Adlai Stevenson II

And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again. Robert Browning

Close letter words and terms

provincially provinciate provine proving ground proving nothing proviolence