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

I look over the events of the last five years, and almost smile at the confutation of this statement which they supply.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

This short and easy confutation overlooks the fact, that in denying matter, Berkeley did not deny any thing to which our senses bear witness, and therefore can not be answered by any appeal to them.

From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive by Mill, John Stuart

He returns to them again and again, analysing their sources, describing their characteristics, indicating the mischief they work, and offering a reasoned and solid confutation.

From A Mediaeval Mystic A Short Account of the Life and Writings of Blessed John Ruysbroeck, Canon Regular of Groenendael A.D. 1293-1381 by Scully, Vincent

Other examples in abundance, in confutation of his assumption, could no doubt be furnished.

From The Woman Who Dared by Sargent, Epes