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
It is not worth while, as it certainly is not our desire, to snatch a transient advantage by misrepresenting the views we are controverting.
From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose
If Socinus had recollected this, he might have spared himself the trouble of controverting a notion never maintained by the orthodox, i.e. that the Deity was individually divided.
From Christian Sects in the Nineteenth Century by Cornwallis, Caroline Frances
But when they insist upon controverting the evidence supplied by senses which they do not possess they become merely tiresome.
From Legends & Romances of Spain by Spence, Lewis
