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

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

The author of "The Rights of Man" may therefore be a confutation of his own dictum: "An hereditary governor is as inconsistent as an hereditary author."

From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett by Conway, Moncure Daniel

The assertion in the "Cry from Ireland," that the peasant gives his manure, and pays 18s. an acre besides, is too ridiculous to require confutation.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 by Various

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 Gillespie, George