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
In controverting another man's book, you have to follow the order of his ideas instead of that in which your own are most easily expounded.
From The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice by Sir Leslie Stephen
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 Lewis Spence
The two first works of importance, controverting Secularist principles, were by the Rev. Joseph Parker and Dr. J. A. Langford; Dr. Parker was ingenious, Dr. Langford eloquent.
From English Secularism A Confession Of Belief by George Jacob Holyoake
