misprove

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To disprove

   To disprove; to provide evidence that contradicts.

   • 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.
2. 2

   To provide an erroneous proof for.

   • 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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