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

To his statement of the danger of legislative usurpation Caleb Cushing made a dignified, though somewhat rhetorical reply; but while controverting his opinions, he spoke of Cooper personally with great respect.

From James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters by Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford

In other words: all our real faculties bear witness to the truth of Hamilton’s statement; and the only way of controverting it is to invent an imaginary faculty for the purpose.

From The Philosophy of the Conditioned by Mansel, Henry Longueville

My brother was just on the point of controverting a proposition that I had laid down, when he cast a glance through the window....

From Gabriel A Story of the Jews in Prague by Kohn, Spiegfried