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

Mr. Hammerton said that she was a confutation of the oak and vine theory, that he had stood and stood to be entwined about, but that she would never entwine.

From Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline A Story of the Development of a Young Girl's Life by Drinkwater, Jennie M.

Nash also wrote a confutation of Harvey's Foure Letters, 1592.

From A History of English Poetry: an Unpublished Continuation by Warton, Thomas

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 Korzybski, Alfred

Arguments of those denying the Earth's motion, and their confutation.

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William