Controvert Definition

kŏntrə-vûrt, kŏntrə-vûrt
controverted, controverting, controverts
verb
controverted, controverting, controverts
To raise arguments against; voice opposition to.
American Heritage
To argue or reason against; contradict; deny; dispute.
Webster's New World
To argue about; debate; discuss.
Webster's New World

(intransitive) To be involved or engaged in controversy.

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Origin of Controvert

  • From Latin as if *controvertere, assumed from controversus, from contro- (“against”) + vertere (“to turn”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Back-formation from controversy

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Controvert Sentence Examples

  • From a theoretical point of view Hahnemann's is one of the abstract systems, pretending to universality, which modern medicine neither accepts nor finds it worth while to controvert.

  • The dominant theory at the time when Job was written was that all suffering was a punishment of sin; and the aim of the book is to controvert this theory.

  • Meanwhile Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas, accepting the exegetical services of the Arabians, did their best to controvert the obnoxious doctrine of the Intellect, and to defend the orthodoxy of Aristotle against the unholy glosses of infidels.

  • This alone would be sufficient to controvert the baseless assumption that there existed in southern Rhodesia a ruling caste of different racial origin from the general Bantu population.

  • Like persecution awaited him elsewhere, and at last he passed over to Holland, being aided by certain wealthy English merchants who wished him to controvert the supporters of the English church in Leiden.

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