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."
From Time Magazine Archive
Delighted at this really "safe" issue, the Deputies rose to support or confute Dr. Pinard.
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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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There they stand for ever to confute injustice, to rectify error, to defy malice; to silence, and long outlive the sneer, the lie, the jest, the reproach.
From Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. III (of 3) by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
And I am the more confident to assert it, that what I say cannot be condemned, till first what our reformers have proven be confuted.
From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields
The author of such a Key and romance would be confuted at once by the exclamation, “If these horrors are general, people would flee marriage as they do the plague.”
From The Brothers' War by John Calvin Reed
When the authenticity of the Parian Chronicle was doubted by the Rev. Joseph Robertson, in a work which he published, it was reviewed and confuted by the Rev. John Hewlett.
From The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume I (of 3) by John Knowles
Macmillan," he wrote, "seemed in his very person to embody the national decay he supposed himself to be confuting.
From Time Magazine Archive
But to have an illustration, and a very base illustration, drawn from his own daughters in his own presence, made with the object of confuting himself,—this was more than the Marquis could endure.
From The Vicar of Bullhampton by Anthony Trollope
His close manner of confuting the Arians in some of his letters, makes us regret the loss of many other works, which he wrote against them.
From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Alban Butler
Its power, Added to beauty as its dower, Has oftentimes—there's no disputing— Added a charm, was passed confuting.
From Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) by John Gay
I know he thinks that, but I had the honour of confuting him the other day with regard to the flagon and gloves.
From The King's Achievement by Robert Hugh Benson
