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

This short and easy confutation overlooks the fact, that in denying matter, Berkeley did not deny any thing to which our senses bear witness, and therefore can not be answered by any appeal to them.

From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive by Mill, John Stuart

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

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 Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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