All 3 Uses
refute
in
The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1
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- What degree of alarm this young person took need not be exactly measured; she instantly rose, however, with a blush which was not a refutation.†
Chpt 2 *refutation = evidence or argument that something is false
- But of the two triumphs, that of refuting a sophistical son and that of holding on a while longer to a state of being which, with all abatements, he enjoyed, Ralph deemed it no sin to hope the latter might be vouchsafed to Mr. Touchett.†
Chpt 7refuting = proving or arguing that something is false
- She asked more questions than he could answer, and launched brave theories, as to historic cause and social effect, that he was equally unable to accept or to refute.†
Chpt 15refute = disprove or argue against
Definitions:
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(1)
(refute) to disprove or argue against
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)