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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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Sometimes they illustrate his thesis; sometimes they confute it.

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The value, that is, of helping to confute feigned connexions and to suggest truer.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich