Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of disproving; disproof.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Act of disproving; disproof.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
disproving ;disproof .
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Examples
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The fact that these climate-skeptics were prepared to take these e-mails, pore over them for some choice quotes (which didn't even look incriminating to me out of context), blatantly misinterpret them without making any kind of good-faith effort to understand the context or the science behind it, and trumpet it all out as some kind of 'disproval' of global warming
Discover Blogs 2009
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The accusation gets the front page headline, and the disproval gets the back of the classified ads.
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LEMON: Well, on Tuesday, the House approved a resolution of disproval, declaring that Wilson had broken House rules.
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Yes, I am a little miffed at this notion of being called a cow for too many reasons to count; however the blame lies with each and every one of us, myself included, who would go along with the undercurrent of sexual disproval of girls while encouraging the same behaviors in men.
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Colli says that throughout her Freshman season in 2005-2006, coach Rhonda Rompola spoke to the team an inordinate amount about her disproval of sexual relationships between team members.
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In other words, the sublime abstract reasoning of a Spinoza will do far less to dispel the narrow ideas, unfounded beliefs, and false restrictive conceptions which cripple the human intelligence so long as it is in bondage to a theological system, than a direct disproval of the alleged facts on which the system professes to rest.
Voltaire 2007
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With the mood of the country at seventy percent disproval of Bush's war, the candidates who voted for his war are in a McCarthyistic bind: Are you now, or have you ever been a Bush supporter?
Two year, billion dollar campaign and the McCarthyistic bind. 2007
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A turn out of as many people as possible at the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday is required to show our disproval.
Children 'bullied by government', claims family support group Thatsnews 2006
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A turn out of as many people as possible at the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday is required to show our disproval.
Archive 2006-11-01 Thatsnews 2006
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O'BRIEN: But when you look at Social Security, large disproval numbers, 50 percent, I think it is, disapprove of the president's approach to the Social Security system and the changes that he's proposing.
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