confute
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Delighted at this really "safe" issue, the Deputies rose to support or confute Dr. Pinard.
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Sometimes they illustrate his thesis; sometimes they confute it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now comes the "mediator" trying to keep peace between many power centers and "the Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute."
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As head of the Government I wish once and for all to confute this miserable lie.
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If you mean that the run is impossible," the banker answered quietly, "I much fear that events will confute you.
From Ovington's Bank by Stanley J. Weyman
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
He instantly sent for his recalcitrant subaltern, to be rated and confuted and silenced.
From Essays by Arthur Christopher Benson
The colossal sleeping figure in its supreme repose confuted every doubt, resting where it had rested for a million years, and would still rest for a million more.
From The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age by Albert Bigelow Paine
Her happy assurance, her absolute confidence that his desires would march with hers, reproached and confuted every adverse thought in him as though it was a treachery to love.
From Marriage by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Macmillan," he wrote, "seemed in his very person to embody the national decay he supposed himself to be confuting.
From Time Magazine Archive
However, it gave him so high an opinion of my abilities in the confuting way that he seriously proposed my being his colleague in a project he had of setting up a new sect.
From Franklin's Autobiography (Eclectic English Classics) by Benjamin Franklin
A philanthropist undertakes to convert a misanthrope, but does not get beyond confuting him.
From The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville
The urgency of confuting heretics made it necessary to find new words to express the ancient faith about God.
From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas
And gChrysostome sharply reproueth all such, and those who aduise with them vpon any occasion, confuting the reasons which they take to be sufficient warantise of their doings.
From A Treatise of Witchcraft by Alexander Roberts
