confute

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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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Sometimes they illustrate his thesis; sometimes they confute it.

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

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He did not see how his sister would confute this argument.

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