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  • verb Present participle of controvert.

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Examples

  • America propaganda ... into the bouillabaisse of lies, stir in well-crafted bogeymen, along with heaping portions of distraction, envy, selfishness — and double-up on aversion to being different (who wants to be "... the turd in the punch bowl" by controverting what we are officially supposed to believe?)

    Stemmers, Part I 2008

  • It is a very commendable zeal; but we must avoid controverting their antiquity, and also calling them idolaters.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Miss Pecksniff controverting this opinion as sinful, Moddle was goaded on to ask whether she could be contented with a blighted heart; and it appearing on further examination that she could be, plighted his dismal troth, which was accepted and returned.

    The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit 2006

  • The LitiGator certainly raises a valid concern about the "public shunning" approach recommended at RealityChecker: that others who disagree with the fundamental objectives of a litigant will use the same tactics to pillory that litigant's lawyers, even when the litigant in question is controverting an undecided issue of public import.

    Scrivener's Error 2003

  • Yea but, quoth Trinquamelle, my friend, seeing it is by the lot, chance, and throw of the dice that you award your judgments and sentences, why do not you livre up these fair throws and chances the very same day and hour, without any further procrastination or delay, that the controverting party-pleaders appear before you?

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Yea but, quoth Trinquamelle, my friend, seeing it is by the lot, chance, and throw of the dice that you award your judgments and sentences, why do not you livre up these fair throws and chances the very same day and hour, without any further procrastination or delay, that the controverting party-pleaders appear before you?

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • In truth he was then not in the least interested in controverting the Christian doctrine on ideological or any other grounds.

    A Special Supplement: The Other Dostoevsky Rahv, Philip 1972

  • Now, as the armed conflict broke in America, it was joined by a more important paper, the _Daily News_, which set itself the task of controverting the _Times_.

    Great Britain and the American Civil War Ephraim Douglass Adams

  • British interference [329], and to Gladstone (evidently controverting the latter's opinion) that slavery was and would continue to be an object in the war [330], but the press, certainly, was not united either as to future British policy or on basic causes and objects of the war.

    Great Britain and the American Civil War Ephraim Douglass Adams

  • In controverting the generally received opinion as to "reversion," Mr. Darwin has shown that it is not all breeds which in a few years revert to the original form; but he has shown no more.

    On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart

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