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

The confutation of the Experiment in the Ebany.

From Discourse on Floating Bodies by Galilei, Galileo

The words italicized by us above illustrate the intrepid firmness of our author in staking the fortune of an opinion of his upon the risk of confutation by future fact.

From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver

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

From A History of English Poetry: an Unpublished Continuation by Warton, Thomas

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 Disraeli, Isaac