confusing

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Against it, and completely confuting it, we set the clear conclusions of Dr. Brinkley, backed by his unequalled record of over 600 successful transplants of goat-glands into men and women, during the past three years.

From The Goat-gland Transplantation As Originated and Successfully Performed by J. R. Brinkley, M. D., of Milford, Kansas, U. S. A., in Over 600 Operations Upon Men and Women by Flower, Sydney Blanshard

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 Rossetti, William Michael

In some of his works Ghazzali gives special attention to confuting these.

From Mystics and Saints of Islam by Field, Claud

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 Smith, William, Sir