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

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

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

The words italicized by us above illustrate the intrepid firmness of our author in staking the fortune of an opinion of his upon the risk of confutation by future fact.

From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver