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
Justice Curtis found no more difficulty in controverting these propositions than those upon the first point treated in the opinion of the Chief Justice.
From The Middle Period 1817-1858 by John William Burgess
He had been under the necessity of controverting, in some particulars, a generally accepted belief.
From James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters by Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury
There is no controverting a critic who has twenty stout rowers, and twenty well-knotted rope-ends.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor
