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 • 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

He had been under the necessity of controverting, in some particulars, a generally accepted belief.

From James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters by Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford

If, after this explanation, anyone still has aught of criticism, I must needs be silent, not controverting his censure.

From The Strollers by Fisher, Harrison

In controverting the generally received opinion as to "reversion," Mr. Darwin has shown that it is not all breeds which in a few years revert to the original form; but he has shown no more.

From On the Genesis of Species by Mivart, St. George