Confute is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CONFUTE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to disprove or overcome through argument
• prove (a person or an assertion or accusation) to be wrong
• prove wrong
• To overwhelm by argument; to refute conclusively; to prove or show to be false or defective; to overcome; to silence.
• prove to be false

Words related to CONFUTE

confutable17 confutation16 confutations17 confutative19 confuted14 confuter13 confuters14 confutes13 confuting15

Words that contain CONFUTE

confuted14 confuter13 confutes13 confuters14 confutement18 confutements19

How to use CONFUTE in a sentence

• The different use of the Greek particles in the Wisdom of Solomon, and in the works of Philo, is sufficient to confute the hypothesis of Philo being the author.
• But what is any opinion worth, if further knowledge of facts can confute it? 2.
• Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
• If you have aught to urge against me or any evidence to give, I shall be prepared to confute it.
• Scholars like Petrarch were eager to confute his sect, and artists used him as a symbol of materialistic disbelief.
• All the force of reason, and all the charms of language, are indeed necessary to support positions which every man hears with a wish to confute them.
• This is a paradox which all the principles of commerce and all the experience of policy concur to confute.
• The best way for them to confute me is, as I before advised the Papists, to disclaim their principles and renounce their practices.
• And why not? Albertus Magnus constructed an image perfect to talk metaphysics and confute the schools.
• It is so easy to confute your opponent when you are a hundred strong and he is one weak unit.
• Dr Middleton took his arm and discharged a volley at the crotchetty scholarship of Professor Crooklyn, whom to confute by book, he directed his march to the library.
• But Milton was born to confute established opinions.
• The allusions, however, in the letters of Paul alone to definite historical associations connected with Jesus are sufficient to confute this view.
• And I have the rather inserted this to confute that scorn which, I hear, some have since put upon that conscientious desire.
• She would confute the malice spoken by Koume, by parent and child.
• If he takes the pains to write a book to confute it, it is self-evident that it is in circulation, and possessed of influence.
• They are as ideal as those of Sesac, and sufficiently confute themselves.
• Her one idea was to contradict and confute the disgraceful announcement at its fountain-head.
• For just a second Ledyard lost his head and called on Billings as a man of honor to confute the charge.
• With all the vivid hope of youthful inexperience, she continued to believe that he would return and confute his accusers.
• But there are scores of arguments that would confute and overwhelm this somewhat gloomy view.
• Domitian desiring to confute such uncanny powers of prediction ordered him to be killed and securely buried.
• Then thou goest to Jerusalem, Paul asked, to confute me? No, Paul, I shall not return to Jerusalem.
• Bear him hither, that seeing him before my eyes that denied he had defiled my bed, I may confute him with words, and with what has happened from the Gods.
• Lentulus went out into the atrium and walked up and down, biting his nails, and trying to think out the arguments by which he would confute the political heresies of Drusus.
• And therefore, Socrates, I give you notice that you may teach and confute me as much as ever you like, and also learn of me anything which I know.

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