Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the act of demonstrating that something is false; confutation.
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- verb Present participle of
confute .
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Examples
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Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing. "
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Various
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You and some other commentators have been confuting these two issues in the comment threads on the Garzon affair.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Garzon and the Trouble with International Law” 2010
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You and some other commentators have been confuting these two issues in the comment threads on the Garzon affair.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Garzon and the Trouble with International Law” 2010
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You actually think you're being clever by deliberately confuting homosexuality and necrophilia disingenuously?
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In the first volume of his Caledonia, he quotes the passage in Godscroft for the purpose of confuting it.
The Monastery 2008
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Nobody can refuse to talk with him, he is so honest and really curious to know; a man who was willingly confuted if he did not speak the truth, and who willingly confuted others asserting what was false; and not less pleased when confuted than when confuting; for he thought not any evil happened to men of such
Representative Men 2006
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And if they set about confuting him in the name of truth, he has but to repeat the famous question, ‘What is truth?’
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However foolish it may be, I confess to a weakness for being on the stream at times when all experts agree that it is almost impossible to take fish -- not with the idea of confuting their theories, but with the hope of learning why it is so; and an experience one hot July proved to my entire satisfaction that there are times when trout are neither interested in food nor anything else.
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He, then, is strong in argument and has the faculty of exhorting and confuting, who is able to show to each man the contradiction through which he errs and clearly to prove how he does not do that which he wishes and does that which he does not wish.
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Above all, it appeared, that the best, the only method, which remained for confuting the daring aspersions that had affected her name, was, by proving the high respect he himself felt for her, and presenting her to the world in the sacred character of his wife.
The Italian 2004
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