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 absurd rhapsody has been worth preserving, for the sake of the masterly confutation: no uncommon result of Warburton’s literary labours!
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
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 Benjamin M. Anderson
I look over the events of the last five years, and almost smile at the confutation of this statement which they supply.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The confutation of the Experiment in the Ebany.
From Discourse on Floating Bodies by Galileo Galilei
