Misprove
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Misprove is a verb meaning To provide an erroneous proof for.
Meaning
To provide an erroneous proof for.
More Meanings
- (archaic) To disprove; to provide evidence that contradicts.
Example Sentences
“You yourself misprove that,” Dewar said.
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.
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.)
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?
Word Forms
- misproves
- misproving
- misproved
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include disprove, improve, convince, confute, argue, refute.
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