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
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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
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
In the same year Foucher published an article in the Journal controverting Leibniz; and in the next year Leibniz replied with an 'Explanation'.
From Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by E.M. Huggard