Meaning of unsubstantiate | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To prove false; to disprove or discredit.
2. To officially categorize (an allegation) as unsubstantiated.
3. To call into question; to create doubt about.
4. To make insubstantial or abstract; unsubstantialize.

Examples

“With this evidence, in addition to the findings of previous research, showing conclusively that it is not the pattern of courses followed by the student in the high school but his scholastic aptitude which determines his success in the college program, only one additional type of evidence is needed to completely unsubstantiate the reverence of colleges for entrance prescriptions.”

“Confirming rules substantiate or unsubstantiate the presumption diagnosis and therefore are not unavoidable.”

“R A Fisher had the knack for making statements about theoretical conclusions without bothering to give any supporting proof and it befell the lot of lesser mortals to substantiate (and occasionally to unsubstantiate) these statements.”

“The purpose of an investigation is to substantiate or unsubstantiate the reported need for protective services.”

“In the context of East Asia, admittedly, the democratic peace thesis remains difficult to substantiate or unsubstantiate by empirical evidence.”

“Stepwise logistic regression analysis was used to determine whether or not there was a relationship between specified factors and the decision to substantiate or unsubstantiate sexual abuse cases.”

“In a memo dated, February 24, 1993, the Department of Social Services instructed its workers to "unsubstantiate" a case if the following were thought to be true:”

“The overall influence of such considerations limits the study's ability to conclude decisively that all the insignificant policy variables considered in the analysis do not influence the decision to unsubstantiate.”

“You bring down the high economy of heaven to the standard of human convenience. You pull the fabric of God's moral government to pieces; and unsubstantiate all the solemnity of His proclaimed sayings—all the lofty annunciations of the law, and of the prophets—all that is told of the mighty apparatus of the day of judgment—all that revelation points to, or conscience can suggest, of a living and a reigning God, who will not let Himself down to be affronted or trampled upon by the creatures whom He has formed.”

“And when they can really pick any hole in such characters, and unsubstantiate them, what a pleasure it is !”

“The premises that unsubstantiate Matter, they would argue, unsubstantiate everything.”

“My purpose in dealing with these images is to attempt to unsubstantiate any attached conception and preconception of the image, especially the stereotypes of interpretation.”

“Shakespeare's tendency to generalise, spiritualise and unsubstantiate was as great as his capacity to particularise and substantiate.”

“He has been the powerful and effective organ of our Church; and when he goes, no wonder that many feel a void and blank which seems to unsubstantiate their Church, and make it no longer a home to them.”

“To the Homo neuroticus, in whom fear of death and the death wish are equally balanced, old age is odious because it reminds him of the reality of death he is always trying to unsubstantiate into an intellectual game.”

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