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Borrowed from Medieval Latin contrōvertere, from Latin contrō- (“against”) + vertere (“to turn”).

controvert (third-person singular simple present controverts, present participle controverting, simple past and past participle controverted)

1. (transitive) To dispute, to argue about (something). [from 16th c.]
2. (transitive) To argue against (something or someone); to contradict, to deny. [from 16th c.]
   • 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:
     [T]hat women from their education and the present state of civilized life, are in the same condition, cannot, I think, be controverted.
3. (intransitive) To be involved or engaged in controversy; to argue. [from 17th c.]

• controvertist

• controversial

• controversialist

• controversy

• controverter

• controvertible

• incontrovertible

dispute or argue using reason

• “controvert”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “controvert”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

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