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Confuted vs Confutes - What's the difference?

confuted | confutes |

As verbs the difference between confuted and confutes

is that confuted is (confute) while confutes is (confute).

confuted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (confute)

    • confute

    English

    Verb

    (confut)
  • To show (something or someone) to be false or wrong; to disprove or refute.
  • * 1593 , (Henry Peacham), The Garden of Eloquence :
    • Procatalepsis is a forme of speech by which the Orator perceiving aforehand what might be objected against him, and hurt him, doth confute it before it be spoken .
  • * 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
    • bad books [...] to a discreet and judicious Reader serve in many respects to discover, to confute , to forewarn, and to illustrate.

    confutes

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    Verb

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  • (confute)
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