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

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.

From Miranda of the Balcony A Story by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodle)

The author of "The Rights of Man" may therefore be a confutation of his own dictum: "An hereditary governor is as inconsistent as an hereditary author."

From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett by Conway, Moncure Daniel

No institution could long survive so open a confutation, and it was annulled by the parlement.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various

In other respects, the tract De Senectute almost seems a confutation of the first book of the Tusculan Questions, which is chiefly occupied in showing the wretchedness of long-protracted existence.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II by Dunlop, John