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
There was no controverting this opinion, so we continued our journey.
From Hurricane Hurry by Kingston, William Henry Giles
He had been under the necessity of controverting, in some particulars, a generally accepted belief.
From James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters by Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford
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 Spence, Lewis
