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

Alas! that I should blot paper with the confutation of such fooleries.

From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by Gillespie, George

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

Supply and demand, cost of production, the capitalization theory, the imputation theory—the general laws of the concatenations and interrelations of prices—are quite adequate for the confutation of the quantity theory.

From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.

It was in confutation of this position that the great English works on the evidences of Christianity of Butler, Berkeley, and Cudworth were written.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar by Various