confutation

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One Simon Geddicus, a Lutheran divine, wrote a serious confutation of this libel upon the fair sex, in 1595, and promises the ladies an expectation of salvation on their good behaviour.

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At such times the sight of that road whence he had looked upwards to her window was a consolation, almost a confutation of her dreams.

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

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The idea of a revengeful God is likewise one of that sort, but this idea of divinity being borrowed from a savage nature, needs no further confutation.

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The author of "The Rights of Man" may therefore be a confutation of his own dictum: "An hereditary governor is as inconsistent as an hereditary author."

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