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Delighted at this really "safe" issue, the Deputies rose to support or confute Dr. Pinard.

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As head of the Government I wish once and for all to confute this miserable lie.

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Now comes the "mediator" trying to keep peace between many power centers and "the Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute."

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Healthy, vigorous and solvent, they confute the view that old age, as William Butler Yeats put it, is nothing but a tattered coat upon a stick.

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Nick, however, preserved a majestic silence, which daunted the Parson, who desired arguments to confute.

From Parson Kelly by Andrew Lang

Arguably, though, Stone and Kuznick's contention is less readily confuted.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 15, 2013

Those who expressed skepticism when the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. raised the dividend rate on its common stock to $9 were confuted by the Company's earnings for 1923.

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Furthermore, Rollandus in the said council is expressly confuted 43 by Facchinus.

From The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book by Anonymous

Thus Farinaccius and others affirm 129 after this matter has been well discussed and the contrary opinion confuted.

From The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book by Anonymous

This Memorial was confuted by another, and to the latter there was a Reply.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume III Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by Karl Ludwig von P?llnitz

Macmillan," he wrote, "seemed in his very person to embody the national decay he supposed himself to be confuting.

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It was partly to their success in confuting absurd doctrines that their confidence was due; though the confidence was excessive when it was transferred to the axioms from which they professed to start.

From The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill by Sir Leslie Stephen

As for Dr Downame's1036 two glosses upon that place, which he borroweth from Bellarmine, and whereby he thinketh to elude our argument, we thank Dr Forbesse1037 for confuting them.

From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie

In it, besides confuting the conclusions of the other commissioners on the matters affecting his administration of the post office, Stayner discussed a number of questions, in which he differed in opinion from his colleagues.

From The History of the Post Office in British North America by Sir William Smith

Cowden Clarke confirms Hunt in stating that Keats’s hair was brown, and he assigns the same colour, or dark hazel, to his eyes: confuting the “auburn” and “blue” of which Mrs. Procter had spoken.

From Life of John Keats by William Michael Rossetti