Definition of Call into question

1. Verb. Challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of. "We must question your judgment in this matter"

Exact synonyms: Oppugn, Question
Generic synonyms: Challenge
Derivative terms: Question

Lexicographical Neighbors of Call Into Question

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call into question (current term)
call it a day
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Literary usage of Call into question

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Exchequer: From by Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Alexander Anstruther, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords (1817)
"Originally, therefore, it seems to me, that to call into question, or in any manner to interrupt the course of the prerogative jurisdiction, was treated as ..."

2. The Elizabethan Prayer-book & Ornaments: With an Appendix of Documents by Henry Gee (1902)
"... wherein our whole religion consisteth, we ought, I ssy. to reverence, and not to call into question. For as i learned . man writeth, "Quae patefacta ..."

3. Secularism: Its Progress and Its Morals by John Milton Bonham (1894)
"... then, does not in any instance call into question the theologian's right as an individual to express convictions which are really his, so far as those ..."

4. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Ernest Cushing Richardson, Allan Menzies, Bernhard Pick (1903)
"We may not, I say, we may not call into question the truth of the (poor vilified) senses,' lest we should even in Christ Himself, bring doubt upon • the ..."

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