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 “Recollections” were afterwards reproduced as a volume, and in the volume the confutation of Haydon disappeared; whether because Clarke had eventually changed his opinion, or for what other reason, I am unable to say.

From Life of John Keats by Rossetti, William Michael

His preaching, as Sainte-Beuve well says, may be considered to have been, in the preacher’s intention, one prolonged confutation of Pascal’s immortal indictment.

From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver

But Mr. George persuades himself that they would answer it otherwise, and devotes the next section of his book to an elaborate confutation of the false answers he supposes they would return to it.

From Contemporary Socialism by Rae, John

Other examples in abundance, in confutation of his assumption, could no doubt be furnished.

From The Woman Who Dared by Sargent, Epes