Controvert: alternatives and connections

A composition for blacking shoes, boots, etc.; also, one for taking impressions of engraved work.

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To differ in opinion; to be of unlike or contrary sentiment; to disagree; -- followed by from.

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Denying; implying, containing, or asserting denial, negation or refusal; returning the answer no to an inquiry or request; refusing assent; as, a neg…

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To affirm in a public or formal manner; to bear witness; to declare solemnly; to avow.

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To stand against; to withstand; to obstruct.

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An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.

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To overwhelm by argument; to refute conclusively; to prove or show to be false or defective; to overcome; to silence.

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To prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; to refute.

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To drive or beat back; to repulse.

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To disprove and overthrow by argument, evidence, or countervailing proof; to prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; as, to refute arguments; to…

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One who confutes or disproves.

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One who confutes or disproves.

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Act of refuting; refutation.

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Act of refuting; refutation.

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The act or process of refuting or disproving, or the state of being refuted; proof of falsehood or error; the overthrowing of an argument, opinion, t…

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The act or process of refuting or disproving, or the state of being refuted; proof of falsehood or error; the overthrowing of an argument, opinion, t…

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To assert the contrary of; to oppose in words; to take issue with; to gainsay; to deny the truth of, as of a statement or a speaker; to impugn.

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To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit.

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To drive or beat back; to repulse.

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To disprove and overthrow by argument, evidence, or countervailing proof; to prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; as, to refute arguments; to…

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