controverting

Verb

controvert (third-person singular simple present controverts, present participle controverting, simple past and past participle controverted)

1. (transitive) To dispute, to argue about (something).
2. (transitive) To argue against (something or someone); to contradict, to deny.
   • [T]hat women from their education and the present state of civilized life, are in the same condition, cannot, I think, be controverted.1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC
3. (intransitive) To be involved or engaged in controversy; to argue.