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."

From Time Magazine Archive

Delighted at this really "safe" issue, the Deputies rose to support or confute Dr. Pinard.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

As head of the Government I wish once and for all to confute this miserable lie.

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Adeline only laughed at these prejudices, without attempting to confute them; for she knew that Mrs Pemberton's appearance and manners would soon annihilate them.

From Adeline Mowbray or, The Mother and Daughter by Opie, Amelia Alderson