We consulted the registers in hopes of confuting it, but did not satisfy ourselves.
It was partly to their success in confuting absurd doctrines that their confidence was due; though the confidence was excessive when it was transferred to the axioms from which they professed to start.
He admitted that he had read their works, but only for the purpose of confuting them, which he had done publicly and in writing.
It is to destroy the means of confuting them and to give them the opportunity of free interpretation.
She vanquished the most learned theologians, until John of Rysbroek succeeded in confuting her.
The next inquisitor, Bernardo Puig, is said to have been earnest and successful, punishing many heretics and confuting many heresies.
For the confuting of heretics a rule of faith is needed, and what is more, a living one to decide in each case.
Is there any need of confutingso repulsive a notion?
However, it gave him so high an opinion of my abilities in the confuting way, that he seriously proposed my being his colleague in a project he had of setting up a new sect.
But I think the practice was not wise; for in the course of my observation, these disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs.
However, it gave him so high an opinion of my abilities in the confuting way that he seriously proposed my being his colleague in a project he had of setting up a new sect.
And even as it may be seen that I speak not against the reverence due to the Philosopher whilst confuting this error, so I speak not against the reverence due to the Empire; and the reason I intend to show.
The troublesome Transalpine wits might then employ themselves in confuting the Turks, rather than in vexing the Catholics; so closely did sagacity and extravagance associate in the mind of this wild genius.
A philanthropist undertakes to convert a misanthrope, but does not get beyond confuting him.
Side-note: Plato here blends together three distinct theories for the purpose ofconfuting them; yet he also professes to urge what can be said in favour of them.
Plato here blends together three distinct theories for the purpose of confuting them; yet he also professes to urge what can be said in favour of them.
But it appears to me that the opponents whom he is here confuting would have accepted his definition, and employed it for the support of their own opinion.
Side-note: Value of formal debate as a means for testing and confuting fallacies.
But I leave this matter; for the proper way of confuting fools is not to use bare words, but to appeal to the things themselves that make against them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "confuting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: contradictory; contrary; refuting
