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noun
1.
Any factual evidence that helps to establish the truth of something.  Synonym: cogent evidence.
2.
A formal series of statements showing that if one thing is true something else necessarily follows from it.
3.
A measure of alcoholic strength expressed as an integer twice the percentage of alcohol present (by volume).
4.
(printing) an impression made to check for errors.  Synonyms: test copy, trial impression.
5.
A trial photographic print from a negative.
6.
The act of validating; finding or testing the truth of something.  Synonyms: substantiation, validation.
verb
1.
Make or take a proof of, such as a photographic negative, an etching, or typeset.
2.
Knead to reach proper lightness.
3.
Read for errors.  Synonym: proofread.
4.
Activate by mixing with water and sometimes sugar or milk.
5.
Make resistant (to harm).
adjective
1.
(used in combination or as a suffix) able to withstand.  "Childproof locks"



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... and I suspected the old fellow was going to cool his wrath with a "peg," and would be asleep most of the morning. John would take a peg too, but he would not sleep in consequence, being of Bombay, iron-headed and spirit-proof. So I read on and wrote, and was happy, for I like the heat of the noon-day and the buzzing of the flies, and the smell of the parched grass, being ...
— Mr. Isaacs • F. Marion Crawford

... flesh-eating animals, and that from analogy it is only reasonable to suppose that the fruitarian, or vegetarian, as it is commonly called, is the diet best suited to man. This conclusion has been arrived at by many distinguished men of science, among whom are the above mentioned. But the proof of the pudding is in the eating, and to prove that the vegetarian is the most hygienic diet, we must examine the physical conditions of those nations and individuals who have lived, and do ...
— No Animal Food - and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes • Rupert H. Wheldon

... want the suffrage." How do you know? have you given her an opportunity of saying so? Wherever the right has been accorded it has been generally exercised, and the best proof of her wishes is the actual use which she makes of the ballot when she has it. But it makes no difference whether all women want to vote or whether most women want to vote, so long as there is one woman who insists upon this simple right, the justice of ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV • Various

... withering influence of a corrupt patronage had demoralized the officers; successive defeats, incurred through the inefficiency of courtly generals, had depressed the spirit of the soldiery, and, were it not for the proof shown upon the bloody fields of La Feldt and Fontenoy, we might almost suppose that English manhood had become an ...
— The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) • George Warburton

... graceful a conversationalist as of yore, and with three young and blooming American duchesses to rival her, still stands well apart from and ahead of them all, at least so far as the homage of our smart and titled society can be accepted as proof ...
— Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 • Various


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