Both Uses of
refute
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- "do as you please my dear viscount, for your arguments are beyond my powers of refutation."
Chpt 37-38 *refutation = argument (that they are false)
- Come, if so you will, count, and continue this conversation at my house, any day you may be willing to see an adversary capable of understanding and anxious to refute you, and I will show you my father, M. Noirtier de Villefort, one of the most fiery Jacobins of the French Revolution; that is to say, he had the most remarkable audacity, seconded by a most powerful organization—a man who has not, perhaps, like yourself seen all the kingdoms of the earth, but who has helped to overturn…†
Chpt 47-48
Definition:
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(refute) to disprove or argue against