confute

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

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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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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.

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Remembering the humiliation I had experienced in my previous attempts to confute him, I determined to select such subjects as would appear the most difficult to explain, and to attack the old man with vehemence.

From Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey by Lloyd, John Uri