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
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 Caroline Frances Cornwallis
There is no controverting a critic who has twenty stout rowers, and twenty well-knotted rope-ends.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor
Here we have a curious example of one writer supporting the statements of another, while appearing to be under the impression that he is controverting those statements.
From Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol 3 of 3) Post-Darwinian Questions: Isolation and Physiological Selection by George John Romanes
