confute

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As head of the Government I wish once and for all to confute this miserable lie.

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Delighted at this really "safe" issue, the Deputies rose to support or confute Dr. Pinard.

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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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Now comes the "mediator" trying to keep peace between many power centers and "the Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute."

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Many scripture examples confute this; shewing that the possession may be in one, and the power with right in another.

From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Shields, Alexander