deprovev.
Misreading in N.E.D. (1895) (taken as a variant of depreve v. with the sense ‘to disprove, refute, contradict, disapprove’) of deprave in the following quotation:
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > refutation, disproof > refute, disprove [verb (transitive)] > an argument, statement, etc.
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convince?1531
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1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) 2nd Prol. 8 The more presumptuous wyll he be to fynde defaulte and to depraue..tho thynges that he vnderstondyth not.
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