controverting
Example Sentences
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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
If, after this explanation, anyone still has aught of criticism, I must needs be silent, not controverting his censure.
From The Strollers by Fisher, Harrison
If Socinus had recollected this, he might have spared himself the trouble of controverting a notion never maintained by the orthodox, i.e. that the Deity was individually divided.
From Christian Sects in the Nineteenth Century by Cornwallis, Caroline Frances
The vixen falls into a hole which she does not see, so bent is she on controverting her husband.
From Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore by Ralston, William Ralston Shedden
