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controvert
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con·tro·vert  (kntr-vûrt, kntr-vûrt)
tr.v. con·tro·vert·ed, con·tro·vert·ing, con·tro·verts
To raise arguments against; voice opposition to.
[From controversy.]
contro·verti·ble adj.
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Verb1.controvert - be resistant to; "The board opposed his motion"
contradict, oppose
rebut, refute - overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof; "The speaker refuted his opponent's arguments"
negative, veto, blackball - vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent; "The President vetoed the bill"
dissent, protest, resist - express opposition through action or words; "dissent to the laws of the country"
2.controvert - prove to be false or incorrect
rebut, refute
confute, disprove - prove to be false; "The physicist disproved his colleagues' theories"
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I find literary analysis that is dogmatic and doctrinaire in the very face of evidence that controverts it to be far more sinister.
A rhetorical and a materialist Cervantes, angst over the married ... by Horst, Robert Ter / Renaissance Quarterly
We have already seen some of the first struggle, between a text originating in the oral tradition and a later textually-based anthropological and historical tradition that controverts its authority.
Finding a place for David Cusick in Native American literary history by Kalter, Susan / MELUS
It controverts the prevailing Eurocentric approach in the existing works on the subject (Pearson, Chauduri, Raychaudhri and, to an extent, Araasratnam) while drawing copiously on them.
The Political Economy of Commerce: Southern India, 1500-1650 by Gokhale, Balkrishna G. / Pacific Affairs
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