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Definition of Confuting
1. confute [v] - See also: confute
Lexicographical Neighbors of Confuting
Literary usage of Confuting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings (1886)
"Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing. . . Who knows not that Truth
is strong, next to the Almighty ? She needs no policies, nor stratagems, ..."
2. Roger of Wendover's Flowers of History: Comprising the History of England by Roger, Matthew Paris (1849)
"Thus she argued most wisely about the catholic doctrine, and in particular by
confuting the heresy of Henry, she brought back to the bosom of the true ..."
3. The Origin of Ideas by Antonio Rosmini (1883)
"A more effectual way of confuting the. Scepticism of Hume. 321. But a shorter
and more effectual way of confuting this class of philosophers would be to ..."
4. A History of Greek Philosophy from the Earliest Period to the Time of Socrates by Eduard Zeller (1881)
"... art of thought and speech, and this must find its sole task in the confuting
of others, when once any positive conviction of its own is renounced. ..."
5. The Theological and Literary Journal (1851)
"The metaphor, therefore, in place of confuting is in harmony with the law he
employs it to overturn, as the people of Jerusalem who are the subjects of the ..."
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