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

On grounds of Scripture and reason he at length declared for Protestantism, and wrote in 1634, but did not publish, a confutation of the motives which had led him over to Rome.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" by Various

The confutation of the Experiment in the Ebany.

From Discourse on Floating Bodies by Galilei, Galileo

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 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