Meaning of misprove | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To disprove; to provide evidence that contradicts.
   archaic
2. To provide an erroneous proof for.

Examples

“At this Giulio abode stupefied and well-nigh beside himself, acknowledging that Delio spoke the truth; nevertheless, impatient to rid⟳ himself of the annoy wherein he found himself, "I know⟳ very full well," quoth he, "that thou sayest sooth and that, if this wicked woman choose⟳ to be obstinate and persist in her lies, I can nowise misprove her by evidence and we shall be worse off than ever; but meseemeth Camillo should put⟳ far more trust⟳ in my most true words than in thelies of a woman of the vilest sort⟳, whom he hath again and again proved to be a liar.”

“The history of how the thing came to be written, and why I kept it unaltered in translating, would prove⟳ ( or misprove ) this mistake⟳ the critic makes.”

““You yourself misprove that,” Dewar said.”

“if the different study⟳ of rocks and formations, and stalactites and stalgmites and so forth, prove⟳ that, dripping, of millions of years, and God said He made the heavens and earth in one twenty-four hours, doesn't that misprove, disprove the Bible?”

“It is easy to ignore⟳ the difference between theory and law. It is easy to pull⟳ data out of context to misprove things. (They make⟳ it look⟳ like⟳ something is true when it is really false.)”

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