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
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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As head of the Government I wish once and for all to confute this miserable lie.
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He says it is compounded of look and glass; but, if the reader happens to think it is derived from looking and glass, the Doctor cannot confute him.
From Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works by Anonymous
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
He had hitherto believed this assertion, but now regarded it as having been fully confuted.
From Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Charles Brockden Brown
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
Well, I do compose then—so you are confuted!
From Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Macmillan," he wrote, "seemed in his very person to embody the national decay he supposed himself to be confuting.
From Time Magazine Archive
And he furthermore seems to imply that Fleischmann merits the reproach of men of science, for wasting his time in confuting "the antiquated and generally exaggerated views of writers like Haeckel."
From At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers by Edwin V. O'Harra
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
It was possible, however, to find evidence supporting or confuting his story.
From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Charles Brockden Brown
The idea is preposterous, foolish, untenable—excellent word, untenable—and as for forging, the thing is so ridiculous that it isn’t worth confuting.
From The Tale of Timber Town by Alfred A. (Alfred Augustus) Grace
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