confutation

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Almost simultaneously Artist Thomas Gainsborough produced his famed Blue Boy, intentionally or not a complete confutation of haughty Artist Reynolds.

From Time Magazine Archive

This short and easy confutation overlooks the fact, that in denying matter, Berkeley did not deny any thing to which our senses bear witness, and therefore can not be answered by any appeal to them.

From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive by Mill, John Stuart

The absurd rhapsody has been worth preserving, for the sake of the masterly confutation: no uncommon result of Warburton’s literary labours!

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac

In terminating the confutation of Mr Debraw's opinion, I have only to explain what led him into error; and that was, his using queens whose history he was unacquainted with from their origin.

From New observations on the natural history of bees by Huber, François

I look over the events of the last five years, and almost smile at the confutation of this statement which they supply.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady