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Impugn   Listen
verb
Impugn  v. t.  (past & past part. impugned; pres. part. impugning)  To attack by words or arguments; to contradict; to assail; to call in question; to make insinuations against; to gainsay; to oppose; as, to impugn a person's integrity. "The truth hereof I will not rashly impugn, or overboldly affirm."






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"Impugn" Quotes from Famous Books



... to be candidly weighed by the reader in opposition to the inculpatory allegations of Mr. Wood—merely remarking that Mr. Wood will find it somewhat difficult to impugn the evidence of Mr. Phillips, whose "upright," "unimpeached," and "unexceptionable" character, he has himself vouched for in unqualified terms, by affixing his signature to the testimonial published in the Weekly Register of Antigua in ...
— The History of Mary Prince - A West Indian Slave • Mary Prince

... light of advancing knowledge. Of all positions the most fatally suicidal for Protestants to occupy is the assumption, which it is competent for Roman Catholics to hold, but not for them, that beliefs once sanctioned by the Church are sacred, and that to impugn them is not error ...
— Short Studies on Great Subjects • James Anthony Froude



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