controvert
verbEtymology Borrowed from Medieval Latin contrōvertere, from Latin contrō- (“against”) + vertere (“to turn”).
1
To dispute, to argue about (something).
2
To argue against (something or someone); to contradict, to deny.
- [T]hat women from their education and the present state of civilized life, are in the same condition, cannot, I think, be controverted.1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC:
3
To be involved or engaged in controversy; to argue.
- Derived terms
- controvertist
- Related terms
- controversial, controversialist, controversy, controverter, controvertible, incontrovertible