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| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : kon-truh-vurt, kon-truh-vurt |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈkɒn trəˌvɜrt, ˌkɒn trəˈvɜrt |
Definition of controvert
Origin :- c.1600, probably a back-formation from controversy. Related: Controverted; controverting; controvertible.
- verb oppose, argue
- That you know your duty, and will not offer to controvert his will?
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- Moreover, there are few now remaining who of their own memory could controvert or correct me.
- Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic
- He says it is purely speculative, but he does not controvert it.
- Extract from : « Storyology » by Benjamin Taylor
- My short residence at Castlebar did not tend to controvert these impressions.
- Extract from : « Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune » by Charles James Lever
- This different suggestion Jabe did not take the trouble to controvert.
- Extract from : « The House in the Water » by Charles G. D. Roberts
- We do not controvert; we only wish to deliver our testimony, and there to leave the matter.
- Extract from : « Loss and Gain » by John Henry Newman
- I did not choose to controvert his opinions; but, "thinks-I-to-my-self," ah!
- Extract from : « A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. » by Benjamin Waterhouse
- "'Es," answered Denny, seeing no reason to controvert this reasoning.
- Extract from : « Grey Town » by Gerald Baldwin
- No architects have ever attempted seriously to controvert this proposition.
- Extract from : « Lectures on Architecture and Painting » by John Ruskin
- She could not controvert this; she merely waited to see what further he had to say.
- Extract from : « Otherwise Phyllis » by Meredith Nicholson
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