What is another word for shewing?

Pronunciation: [ʃˈə͡ʊɪŋ] (IPA)

The word "shewing" is typically spelt as "showing" in modern English. However, there are a number of synonyms that one could use in place of "shewing" or "showing." Some possibilities might include displaying, presenting, revealing, demonstrating, exhibiting, disclosing, manifesting, proving, indicating, or showcasing. These synonyms could be used in a range of different contexts, whether one is describing a visual presentation, providing evidence for an argument, or revealing something hidden or previously unknown. Ultimately, the choice of synonym will depend on the specific situation and the desired tone or emphasis of the writing or speech.

What are the hypernyms for Shewing?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Shewing

This necessary knowledge was scarcely acquired, when the conduct of the British Ministry afforded him an opportunity of shewing himself more openly.
"A Collection of State-Papers, Relative to the First Acknowledgment of the Sovereignty of the United States of America"
John Adams
If I have proposed terms in any respect short of your expectation- I told him, that he had very considerately mentioned my shewing his proposals to Miss Howe; and as I should have a speedy opportunity to send them to her by Collins, I desired to suspend any talk upon that subject till I had her opinion upon them.
"Clarissa, Volume 4 (of 9) History Of A Young Lady"
Samuel Richardson
Those by whom I wish to be judged, will I hope, approve of my adding dignity to Corsica, by shewing its consideration among the ancients, and will not be displeased to find my page sometimes embellished with a seasonable quotation from the Classicks.
"Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica"
James Boswell

Famous quotes with Shewing

  • The oldest definition of as opposed to is that appended to Euclid XIII. 5. It was possibly framed by Eudoxus. It states that "Analysis is the obtaining of the thing sought by assuming it and so reasoning up to an admitted truth: synthesis is the obtaining of the thing sought by reasoning up to the inference and proof of it." In other words, the synthetic proof proceeds by shewing that certain admitted truths involve the proposed new truth: the analytic proof proceeds by shewing that the proposed new truth involves certain admitted truths.
    James Gow (scholar)
  • I have read a rondeau or rondel by Marzials in the beginning and ending "When I see you": it was very graceful and shewing an art and finish rare in English verse. This makes me the more astonished about
    Theo Marzials
  • Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are shewing you the grounds of it.
    William Shenstone
  • As to the First, methought I had some feeling in the Passion of Christ, but yet I desired more by the grace of God. Methought I would have been that time with Mary Magdalene, and with other that were Christ’s lovers, and therefore I desired a bodily sight wherein I might have more knowledge of the bodily pains of our Saviour and of the compassion of our Lady and of all His true lovers that saw, that time, His pains. For I would be one of them and suffer with Him. Other sight nor shewing of God desired I never none, till the soul were disparted from the body. The cause of this petition was that after the shewing I should have the more true mind in the Passion of Christ.
    Julian of Norwich
  • Then came suddenly to my mind that I should desire the second wound of our Lord’s gracious gift: that my body might be fulfilled with mind and feeling of His blessed Passion. For I would that His pains were my pains, with compassion and afterward longing to God. But in this I desired never bodily sight nor shewing of God, but compassion such as a kind soul might have with our Lord Jesus, that for love would be a mortal man: and therefore I desired to suffer with Him.
    Julian of Norwich

Related words: shewing clothes, shewing out, shewing heads, sheep shewing, machine shewing stone

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