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- noun printing The
inverted image of an originalproof . - noun logic A
proof thatcontradicts a givenstatement .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Hopefully you will be able to present some counterproof tomorrow.
Hillary Says Obama Is Politicizing Bhutto Assassination 2009
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There's no counterproof that that's not exactly what was being plotted.
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Again, Jupiter, which you cited as proof of your statement is a counterproof.
Hits « Climate Audit 2005
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The primary importance of that aspect of the prob - lem is demonstrated by a counterproof.
RELIGIOUS TOLERATION ELISABETH LABROUSSE 1968
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The counterproof in the southern hemisphere, where the deviation of the pendulum must be counter-clockwise, has not been made to this day.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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The national acceptance of the laws of the Constituent Assembly was the counterproof of its work.
History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution Alphonse de Lamartine 1829
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This is an obvious counterproof to Kristof's thesis, yet it escapes him.
Elder of Ziyon 2010
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Its instrument is not simply psychological analysis, but also historical analysis as a counterproof. [
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