confute

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

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

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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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Yes, he had lived to shame me from my sneer,    To lame my pencil, and confute my pen— To make me own this hind of princes peer,    This rail-splitter a true-born king of men.

From Abraham Lincoln and the London Punch Cartoons, Comments and Poems, Published in the London Charivari, During the American Civil War (1861-1865) by Walsh, William Shepard