misprove
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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Definition of misprove
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(archaic)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.”
“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?”
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verb
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(archaic)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.”
“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?”
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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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Etymology
From mis- + prove.
Words you can make from misprove
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