All 3 Uses of
refute
in
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- It happened that they wrought an effect on me quite contrary to what was intended by them; for the arguments of the Deists, which were quoted to be refuted, appeared to me much stronger than the refutations; in short, I soon became a thorough Deist.†
- It happened that they wrought an effect on me quite contrary to what was intended by them; for the arguments of the Deists, which were quoted to be refuted, appeared to me much stronger than the refutations; in short, I soon became a thorough Deist.†
- my friend M. le Roy, of the Royal Academy of Sciences, took up my cause and refuted him;
*refuted = argued that something is false
Definition:
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(refute) to disprove or argue against