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 first part of the eight liberall science: Entituled, Ars adulandi, the art of Flattery, with the confutation thereof, both very pleasant and profitable, deuised and compiled by Vlpian Fulwell.

From Catalogue of the Books Presented by Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge by Greg, W. W.

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 “Recollections” were afterwards reproduced as a volume, and in the volume the confutation of Haydon disappeared; whether because Clarke had eventually changed his opinion, or for what other reason, I am unable to say.

From Life of John Keats by Rossetti, William Michael

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

From A History of English Poetry: an Unpublished Continuation by Warton, Thomas