confutation

Some are, but others take place silently, as Boyle says, without anyone bothering to write confutations of the old theory.

One Simon Geddicus, a Lutheran divine, wrote a serious confutation of this libel upon the fair sex, in 1595, and promises the ladies an expectation of salvation on their good behaviour.

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.

Such a scrupulous confutation of self is to be expected as little from mystic visions as from arrogant dogmatism.

The idea of a revengeful God is likewise one of that sort, but this idea of divinity being borrowed from a savage nature, needs no further confutation.