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

It is not worth while, as it certainly is not our desire, to snatch a transient advantage by misrepresenting the views we are controverting.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose

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 Landor, Walter Savage

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