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 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

At such times the sight of that road whence he had looked upwards to her window was a consolation, almost a confutation of her dreams.

From Miranda of the Balcony A Story by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodle)

Mr. Hammerton said that she was a confutation of the oak and vine theory, that he had stood and stood to be entwined about, but that she would never entwine.

From Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline A Story of the Development of a Young Girl's Life by Drinkwater, Jennie M.

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