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   confute

   /kənˈfjuːt/

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   • 1. prove (a person or an assertion or accusation) to be wrong: formal "restorers who sought to confute this view were accused of ignorance"

   Word Origin early 16th century: from Latin confutare ‘restrain, answer conclusively’, from con- ‘altogether’ + the base of refutare ‘refute’.

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   • 1. confutation noun

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   What does the verb 'confute' mean?

   • The verb 'confute' means to disprove or to prove someone wrong by argument or proof. Synonyms include 'disprove', 'defeat', 'overwhelm', 'overcome', and 'silence'. Albertus Magnus constructed an image perfect to talk metaphysics and confute the schools.

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   What does Confutation mean?

   • The act of confuting. Something that confutes. An argument, evidence, etc. that confutes. On grounds of Scripture and reason he at length declared for Protestantism, and wrote in 1634, but did not publish, a confutation of the motives which had led him over to Rome.

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   What does confuter mean?

   • From Middle French confuter, from Latin confūtāre. Both of these confessions were drawn up to confute the teaching of a remarkable man who had been patriarch of Constantinople, Cyril Lucar.

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   What does Fut mean?

   • v.t. -fut•ed, -fut•ing. 1. to prove to be false, invalid, or defective; disprove: to confute an argument. 2. to prove (a person) to be wrong by argument or proof. 3. Obs. to bring to naught; confound.

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   What does confidable mean?

   • Did you mean confidential? Confidential means able to be entrusted with secrets or private information. Able to keep silent concerning other's secrets or private information. How to pronounce confidential?

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   Why is it hateful to be confuted?

   • But it is hateful to be confuted, for a man now old, and one who, perhaps, hath served his three campaigns! They affect a cloudy and canting style, as if to keep themselves from being confuted by keeping themselves from being understood. This supposition is confuted by the history of all the nations on the continent.

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   Confute is a verb that means to overwhelm in argument or refute conclusively. Learn its synonyms, examples, word history, and etymology from the Merriam-Webster dictionary.

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   Confute means to prove to be wrong or in error; refute decisively. Find the origin, pronunciation, and translations of confute in English and other languages.

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   Confute means to prove a person or an argument to be wrong. Learn how to use this formal verb in sentences, see synonyms and related words, and explore translations in different languages.

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