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

Other examples in abundance, in confutation of his assumption, could no doubt be furnished.

From The Woman Who Dared by Sargent, Epes

This is the only species of confutation which they ever forgive.

From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul

The first part of the eight liberall science: Entituled, Ars adulandi, the art of Flattery, with the confutation thereof, both very pleasant and profitable, deuised and compiled by Vlpian Fulwell.

From Catalogue of the Books Presented by Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge by Greg, W. W.

This unexpected confutation from the sole survivor of the accused parties revived the dismayed Clarendonians.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac