pervention

The whole of his speach therefore based upon the pervention of the only legitimate construction23 that can be put apon my colleague's remark goes for naught, and still his assertion that the "apostles of liberty have always been men of action". stands out in bold relief unharmed by the gentleman's fallacies and unrefuted by his argument.

"Have Men of Action Been More Beneficial to the World Than Men of Thought?" Debate Speech of Lee M. McAfee for the Dialectic Society, June 2, 1857 1857