To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.
Reasons […] were adduced on both sides.
To produce in proof.
From Middle English adducen, from Latin addūcere, adductum (“to lead or bring to”), from ad- + dūcere (“to lead”). See duke, and compare adduct.
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