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
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.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
On grounds of Scripture and reason he at length declared for Protestantism, and wrote in 1634, but did not publish, a confutation of the motives which had led him over to Rome.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" by Various
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
Such a scrupulous confutation of self is to be expected as little from mystic visions as from arrogant dogmatism.
From Morals and the Evolution of Man by Max Simon Nordau
