controverting
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On the list for the class of 2013, three facts controverting my own early experience catch the eye: one demographic, one geographic, and one pedagogic.
From Salon ā May 25, 2013
An individuality so tautly drawn between the twin Spanish columns of dignity and passion could never conform to the crude consequences of his own controverting eloquence.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here we have a curious example of one writer supporting the statements of another, while appearing to be under the impression that he is controverting those statements.
From Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol 3 of 3) Post-Darwinian Questions: Isolation and Physiological Selection by George John Romanes
In other words: all our real faculties bear witness to the truth of Hamilton’s statement; and the only way of controverting it is to invent an imaginary faculty for the purpose.
From The Philosophy of the Conditioned by Henry Longueville Mansel
My views on population are confirmed by every fresh calculation I see, and Sadler's new work affords me the means of controverting his theory and establishing my own.
From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 7: W.R. Greg: A Sketch by John Morley
