confute
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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now comes the "mediator" trying to keep peace between many power centers and "the Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute."
From Time Magazine Archive
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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I was very much astonished, therefore, to hear Sumner challenge any one in the audience to confute his arguments.
From My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by George Francis Train
Arguably, though, Stone and Kuznick's contention is less readily confuted.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 15, 2013
Those who expressed skepticism when the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. raised the dividend rate on its common stock to $9 were confuted by the Company's earnings for 1923.
From Time Magazine Archive
This Memorial was confuted by another, and to the latter there was a Reply.
Well, I do compose then—so you are confuted!
From Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
These things therefore we have adduced to you from your own writings, than which we have employed no other testimony, for you yourselves are by them confuted.
From Arguments Of Celsus, Porphyry, And The Emperor Julian, Against The Christians Also Extracts from Diodorus Siculus, Josephus, and Tacitus, Relating to the Jews, Together with an Appendix by Thomas Taylor
Macmillan," he wrote, "seemed in his very person to embody the national decay he supposed himself to be confuting.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cowden Clarke confirms Hunt in stating that Keats’s hair was brown, and he assigns the same colour, or dark hazel, to his eyes: confuting the “auburn” and “blue” of which Mrs. Procter had spoken.
From Life of John Keats by William Michael Rossetti
The idea is preposterous, foolish, untenable—excellent word, untenable—and as for forging, the thing is so ridiculous that it isn’t worth confuting.
From The Tale of Timber Town by Alfred A. (Alfred Augustus) Grace
Christianity in later years did not triumph by confuting the objections raised against it on the part of culture.
From Joy in Service; Forgetting, and Pressing Onward; Until the Day Dawn by George Tybout Purves
We sometimes disputed, and very fond we were of Argument, and very desirous of confuting one another.
From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Chester E. Jorgenson
