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

The preface contained the first declaration of his famous formula which was applied to the confutation of Blackstone.

From The English Utilitarians, Volume I. by Stephen, Leslie, Sir

No institution could long survive so open a confutation, and it was annulled by the parlement.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various

The confutation of the Experiment in the Ebany.

From Discourse on Floating Bodies by Galilei, Galileo

Such a scrupulous confutation of self is to be expected as little from mystic visions as from arrogant dogmatism.

From Morals and the Evolution of Man by Nordau, Max Simon