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Disprove   /dɪsprˈuv/   Listen
verb
Disprove  v. t.  (past disproved; past part. disproven; pres. part. disproving)  
1.
To prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; to refute. "That false supposition I advanced in order to disprove it."
2.
To disallow; to disapprove of. (Obs.)





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"Disprove" Quotes from Famous Books



... character, he picks up in London a scanty livelihood by scurrilous lampoons under a feigned name, has impudently and falsely asserted that the passages omitted were defamatory, and that the omission was not voluntary, but compulsory. The last insinuation I took the trouble publickly to disprove; yet, like one of Pope's dunces, he persevered in 'the lie o'erthrown.' [Prologue to the Satires, l. 350.] As to the charge of defamation, there is an obvious and certain mode of refuting it. Any person who thinks it worth while to compare one edition with the other, ...
— Life Of Johnson, Volume 5 • Boswell
... formed to explain the tumor, all of them of interest, and they have had great importance in that the attempt to prove or disprove the hypothesis by continued observation and experiment along definite lines has produced new knowledge. The various theories as to cause may be divided ...
— Disease and Its Causes • William Thomas Councilman
... didactic and assertive for it is impossible to prove or disprove any of these postulates. It is for that reason, and the lack of time that I cite no instances. They would be merely illustrative and not probative, for the human intellect is unequal to any adequate inductive study of the subject, and human life is too short to classify, master and digest the data ...
— The Inhumanity of Socialism • Edward F. Adams
... punctually discovered. But long he must not walke, lest hee make his newes-presse stand. Thanks to his good invention, he can collect much out of a very little: no matter though more experienced judgements disprove him; hee is anonymos, and that wil secure him. To make his reports more credible or, (which he and his stationer onely aymes at,) more vendible, in the relation of every occurrent he renders you ...
— Microcosmography - or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters • John Earle
... question and disprove the unqualified statement of the Appeal, that "the original settled policy of the United States was non-extension of slavery." Less convincing was Douglas's attempt to prove that the Missouri Compromise was expressly annulled in 1850, when portions of Texas and of the ...
— Stephen A. Douglas - A Study in American Politics • Allen Johnson


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