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confutation
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Confutation \Con`fu*ta"tion\, n. [L. confutatio: cf. F.
confutation.]
The act or process of confuting; refutation. ``For the
edification of some and the confutation of others.''
--Bp.
Horne.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from Latin confutationem (nominative confutatio), noun of action from past participle stem of confutare (see confute).
Wiktionary
n. The act or process of confuting; refutation.
WordNet
n. the speech act of refuting conclusively
evidence that refutes conclusively
Usage examples of "confutation".
When a whirling magnetar blew off overwhelming quantities of gamma rays, was the direction and moment of eruption a consequence of cognizant confutation?
The bare unfolding of this notion, and laying it thus naked and open, seems the best confutation of it.
In confutation of these and all future calumnies, by way of anticipation, I shall make to you a profession of my political faith.
Several councils were held, confutations were published, excommunications were pronounced, ambiguous explanations were by turns accepted and refused, treaties were concluded and violated, and at length Paul of Samosata was degraded from his episcopal character, by the sentence of seventy or eighty bishops, who assembled for that purpose at Antioch, and who, without consulting the rights of the clergy or people, appointed a successor by their own authority.
Certes he regardeth neither wolf, bear, nor lion, and therefore may well be compared with those two dogs which were sent to Alexander out of India (and procreated as it is thought between a mastiff and a male tiger, as be those also of Hircania), or to them that are bred in Archadia, where copulation is oft seen between lions and bitches, as the lion is in France (as I said) between she wolves and dogs, whereof let this suffice, sith the further tractation of them doth not concern my purpose, more than the confutation of Cardan's talk, De subt.