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
It is, however, of great service to point them out; for the doctrine of idols bears the same relation to the interpretation of nature as that of the confutation of sophisms does to common logic.
From Manhood of Humanity. by Alfred Korzybski
Nash also wrote a confutation of Harvey's Foure Letters, 1592.
From A History of English Poetry: an Unpublished Continuation by Thomas Warton
The confutation of the Experiment in the Ebany.
From Discourse on Floating Bodies by Galileo Galilei
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 Isaac Disraeli
