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Definition of Controverts
1. controvert [v] - See also: controvert
Lexicographical Neighbors of Controverts
Literary usage of Controverts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1840)
"... and Lord Jo/in Russell—Able Speech of Sir Robert Peel in opposition to the
Motion—He controverts the alleged fact of the decline of our Manufactures—Mr. ..."
2. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History and Politics of the Year (1840)
"... and 7/ord John Russell—Able Speech of Sir Robert Peel in opposition to the
Motion—He controverts the alleged fact of the decline of our Manufactures—Mr. ..."
3. The Diary of James K. Polk During His Presidency, 1845 to 1849 by James Knox Polk, Milo Milton Quaife (1910)
"... which I claim as a part of the property which I purchased from him as Executor
of Felix Grundy dec'd, & which he controverts. We talked the matter over, ..."
4. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1901)
"... whether the action be for trespass to realty, to personalty, or to the person,
the defendant may give in evidence any matter which directly controverts ..."
5. Antiquary: A Magazine Devoted to the Study of the Past by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1880)
"This document, which so strikingly controverts the belief that the country lay
prostrate before the Chair of St. Peter has not, so far as the writer is ..."
6. The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review by John Henry Newman, James Shergold Boone (1813)
"... opinions and arguments he controverts. The author of Caledonia in particular
is not fo ... controverts ..."
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