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Example sentences for "disproving"

Lexicographically close words:
disproportionately; disproportioned; disprove; disproved; disproves; disputable; disputant; disputants; disputation; disputationem
  1. But are these orders from the citadel as efficacious in disproving the truth of Gian Antonio's assertion before the tribunal of history, as they were in making the Auditor's course clear before him?

  2. To our ideas it would seem that there must have been various means of proving or disproving the facts in question.

  3. Assuming that the description of it is not open to impeachment on any of the grounds above enumerated, are there not other real grounds of objection, disproving its title to the character of Proprium?

  4. When he brings one against me, instead of disproving it I will say that it is a lie and let him prove it if he can.

  5. I have no means," he said, " of totally disproving such charges as this.

  6. Since Janus openly avows his purpose of disproving the doctrine of infallibility, why does he not give such an explanation of it as is taught by its most able and acknowledged defenders?

  7. The faithful may mistake them for changes or innovations in the law itself, and enemies may represent them as such, and sophistically adduce them against the church as disproving her immutability and infallibility.

  8. He sweeps away three fourths of the usual statements on the subject, first of all disproving the allegation that lynching is a comparatively recent practice brought about by negro crimes since the Civil War.

  9. Is not the instinct of the bee the intelligence of God, disproving the heresy of an absentee God?

  10. Huxley filled jars with sterilized water, and placed in it sterilized vegetation, and sealed them up, and after 30 years, no life was seen, disproving spontaneous generation.

  11. A testimony more honorable than this in behalf of a public man, was never delivered, nor one more completely disproving a dishonorable imputation, and showing that praise was due where censure had been lavished.

  12. Herodotus's method of disproving the existence of the Hyperboreans was ridiculous.

  13. I see no reason for believing in it; but, on the other hand, I have no means of disproving it.

  14. He is one of those people who talk of the 'possibility' of the thing, who think the difficulties of disproving a thing as good as direct evidence in its favour.

  15. We do not properly fulfil the task prescribed by Critical teaching in merely disproving the cosmological argument.

  16. The fact that the sun has without a single known exception arisen each day in the past does not (if we accept the argument disproving all knowledge of necessary connection) constitute proof that it will rise to-morrow.

  17. For save through the facts of physics and physiology there seems to be no possible method of disproving the belief of ordinary consciousness, that in perception we apprehend independent material bodies.

  18. By disproving that law it might have been possible to retain the old conception of the movements of the bodies, but without disproving it, it would seem impossible to continue studying the Ptolemaic worlds.

  19. For years and years Mr. Darrow has been gently disproving the intelligence of man, the importance of life, and the necessity of thought.

  20. Mr. Darrow, of course, bent all his efforts on disproving immortality.

  21. Surely; for, if people did not believe the false reports before mentioned, there would be no use of disproving them.

  22. To prove this, and to challenge some other persons, he presented a memorial which was admitted, although it was afterwards considered to have failed in disproving the charges.

  23. It is readily admitted, that the heinous charges which are made by Maria Monk against the Roman priests cannot easily be rebutted in the usual form of disproving criminal allegations.

  24. We had this difficulty to overcome, as well as that of disproving his arguments, if, indeed, the latter could be deemed a difficulty at all.

  25. Or again, by way of disproving the assertion of the right of private judgment in religion, one may hear a grave argument to prove that 'it is impossible every one can be right in his judgment.

  26. Palenque, as the greatest city of ancient times in this region which has left traces of its existence, may have been identical with Xibalba; the difficulty of disproving the identity is equaled only by that of proving it.

  27. The friendship of an unquestioned sort that seems to have gone quite out of the world, had all the phases of a more tender sentiment, and goes far towards disproving the charge of coldness that has often been brought against her.

  28. It left Nelson worse off, as far as disproving their charge went, than he would have been had they taken the case into court.

  29. We've got to set about disproving the accusation.

  30. Fisk to sustain the third we have succeeded in disproving the doctrine of foreordination, which Arminians deny, and Calvinists have attempted to maintain.

  31. The second is, that we have in our own hands, at last, the means of finally disposing of this question, by disproving the second assertion.

  32. Clarke has said; the women of largest experience condemn, denying his premises, disproving his clinical evidence by adding other facts, and protesting against his conclusions.

  33. You have suggested that in disproving the religion of Jesus Christ, I should disprove all religion; as there can be no choice between this and any other; for if this can be proved false all may be proved false &c.

  34. You hardly know how to understand me where I suggest, that in disproving the religion of Jesus Christ, you disprove all religion, &c.

  35. You hardly know how to understand me when I suggest, that in disproving the religion of Jesus Christ, you disprove all religion, &c.

  36. You will duly consider that in disproving the religion of Jesus Christ, you disprove all religion, for I am satisfied that you will not pretend that you are making a choice between the gospel and some other doctrine.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disproving" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.