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
The summary of the London Journal seems to show that it was continually occupied in controverting the views and arguments of the Craftsman.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 2, February, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
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
When a body of religionists come together upon certain tenets, it would be a reductio ad absurdum for any of its ministers to be occupied in denying and controverting these tenets.
From Practical Essays by Bain, Alexander
