confute
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Delighted at this really "safe" issue, the Deputies rose to support or confute Dr. Pinard.
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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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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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As head of the Government I wish once and for all to confute this miserable lie.
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So he hastened to confute or convince all such persons by pointing out that in this very fact consisted the special claim of "The Caxtons" to absolute originality.
From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy
Arguably, though, Stone and Kuznick's contention is less readily confuted.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 15, 2013
Those who expressed skepticism when the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. raised the dividend rate on its common stock to $9 were confuted by the Company's earnings for 1923.
From Time Magazine Archive
As these two last-named schools have either successfully confuted or incorporated the theories of all their predecessors, a brief outline of their respective beliefs will not be out of place.
From Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art by H. A. (H?l?ne Adeline) Guerber
The opponents of Government ownership and management have been ruthlessly confuted.
From The Express Companies of the United States A Study of a Public Utility by Bert Benedict
No. The story of stones being thrown at him is destitute of all proof but the guard's own assertion, and is confuted by a hundred eye witnesses.
From Recollections of Windsor Prison; Containing Sketches of its History and Discipline with Appropriate Strictures and Moral and Religious Reflection by John N. Reynolds
Macmillan," he wrote, "seemed in his very person to embody the national decay he supposed himself to be confuting.
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Stonor didn’t believe a word of this, but had no means of confuting the man on the spot.
From The Woman from Outside [on Swan River] by Hulbert Footner
It was possible, however, to find evidence supporting or confuting his story.
From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Charles Brockden Brown
His close manner of confuting the Arians in some of his letters, makes us regret the loss of many other works, which he wrote against them.
From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Alban Butler
However, it gave him so high an opinion of my abilities in the confuting way that he seriously proposed my being his colleague in a project he had of setting up a new sect.
From Franklin's Autobiography (Eclectic English Classics) by Benjamin Franklin
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