Neither anticipation was unreasonable, but the one was justified whilst the other was confuted by events.
She considers in order the various claims to predominance which men have put forward, and confutes them one by one.
The face which he puts upon it shall either confirm your suspicions or entirely confute them.
There is no need to confute the theory, which confutes itself.
Examplesofconfute
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Parliamentary right was sustained by an argument which, a generation earlier, might have been used toconfuteit.
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And the principles which he himself proceedeth on, do seem to border on, if not to be borrowed from his, and those which are here confuted.
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You canconfutethem by better ideas and by better action and by showing in practice the superiority of the democratic way of life.
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That seems to be an argument which completely confutes everything ever written by economists about the relationship between money and what is obtained for it.
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Statements at the time to this effect were neither confuted nor even contradicted.
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It confutes the critics who deny that such collaboration is possible.
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Is that really an argument which needs to be more than stated in order to be confuted?
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The case has only to be stated in order to be confuted.
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I am quite certain that every one of those contentions could be confuted by argument.
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No amount of dialectical argument and debate canconfutethat fact.
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But experience has confuted these fears in every detail.
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Alas, those who believed that four years ago have been confuted by the course of events.
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These figures, therefore, utterlyconfutethe whole theme of their political attack.
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You canconfutethem with better ideas and by better action, and by showing in practice the superiority of the democratic way of life.
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We have seen things toconfuteprophecy and baffle imagination.
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