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Definition of Disproving
1. disprove [v] - See also: disprove
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disproving
Literary usage of Disproving
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Treatise on the Law of Evidence by Thomas Welburn Hughes (1905)
"A witness may be impeached in the following ways: (1) By disproving by ...
A very common way for an adversary to impeach a witness is by disproving his ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence as Administered in England and Ireland by John Pitt Taylor (1887)
"... the plaintiff was not estopped by the former judgment from disproving the
usurious agreement, inasmuch as the existence of such agreement had not been ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Criminal Evidence: Including the Rules Regulating by Harry Clay Underhill (1898)
"Mode of proving or disproving intoxication.—A non-expert witness may testify that
the accused or some other person was intoxicated on a given date,04 and ..."
4. Trial Evidence: The Rules of Evidence Applicable on the Trial of Civil by Austin Abbott (1880)
"Defenses ; Disproving loan.~]—If the making of any loan whatever by plaintiff is
denied,7 evidence of his poverty at the time is competent as tending to ..."
5. The Fragments of Zeno and Cleanthes by Zeno, Cleanthes (1891)
"quoted of the Sorites type, disproving the existence of God. If the sun is a god,
so are days, months and years. This the Stoics might have admitted, ..."
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