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Adduction   Listen
noun
Adduction  n.  
1.
The act of adducing or bringing forward. "An adduction of facts gathered from various quarters."
2.
(Physiol.) The action by which the parts of the body are drawn towards its axis); opposed to abduction.





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"Adduction" Quotes from Famous Books



... sort, which he accepts as authoritative, and which he regards as having a bearing upon the particular instance in question. That individual decisions should be capable of some sort of justification by the adduction of a reason or reasons is generally admitted. No sane man would maintain the general proposition that the consequences of acts should be wholly disregarded in determining whether they are ...
— A Handbook of Ethical Theory • George Stuart Fullerton
... fact, that in all these corpses the thumb exhibited a singular attitude—that of adduction or attraction inward, which I had never noted either ...
— Delsarte System of Oratory • Various


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