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 preface contained the first declaration of his famous formula which was applied to the confutation of Blackstone.

From The English Utilitarians, Volume I. by Stephen, Leslie, Sir

Supply and demand, cost of production, the capitalization theory, the imputation theory—the general laws of the concatenations and interrelations of prices—are quite adequate for the confutation of the quantity theory.

From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.

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

From A History of English Poetry: an Unpublished Continuation by Warton, Thomas

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 Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)