Both Uses
refute
in
Black Boy
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- I could not refute the general Communist analysis of the world; the only drawback was that their world was just too simple for belief.†
Chpt 2.16refute = disprove or argue against
- He refuted Young's wild charges, but the majority of the club's members were bewildered, did not know whether to believe him or not.†
Chpt 2.18 *refuted = disproved or argued against
Definitions:
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(1)
(refute) to disprove or argue against
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)