Definition of "proofs" []

• : Plural of proof. (noun)
• Samples of the copy and layout of a printed document for review by the author or a proofreader before mass printing (noun)

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• "I don't want what you call proofs -- though you'll want them badly if you mean to pursue your present line."
• "So Richard brought forward what he called the proofs of the very intimate relations which had subsisted between Alice and his father."
• "He had his proofs from the books, the books that had educated him beyond the Morse standard."