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 Sir Leslie Stephen
Thus, having both explained and confirmed the proposition of our present argument, I will make my next for the confutation of the answers which our opposites devise to elude it.
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie
Mr. Hammerton said that she was a confutation of the oak and vine theory, that he had stood and stood to be entwined about, but that she would never entwine.
From Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline A Story of the Development of a Young Girl's Life by Jennie M. Drinkwater
In other respects, the tract De Senectute almost seems a confutation of the first book of the Tusculan Questions, which is chiefly occupied in showing the wretchedness of long-protracted existence.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II by John Dunlop
