controversion

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Apparently no one attempted a scientific and personal controversion of Fletcherism during the period of its maximum popularity.

From Time Magazine Archive

Moreover, this operation is in direct controversion of the basic principles of aseptic surgery, the legitimate aim of which is to remove from the organism the products of disease, but never to introduce them.

From The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 The Independent Health Magazine by Daniel, Charles William

One important demonstration was his controversion of the theory of abiogenesis, or "spontaneous generation," as propounded by Needham and Buffon.

From A History of Science — Volume 4 by Williams, Henry Smith

What did the historian mean by alleging credulity in way of accounting for facts which he adduced, and left without direct controversion, or any attempt at such?

From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Putnam, Allen

The unconscious tracks of the forger, however, cannot be bribed or made to lie, and they often speak in a language so unmistakable as to utterly defy controversion.

From Disputed Handwriting An exhaustive, valuable, and comprehensive work upon one of the most important subjects of to-day. With illustrations and expositions for the detection and study of forgery by handwriting of all kinds by Lavay, Jerome Buell