confutationn.
/kɒnfjuːˈteɪʃən/ 1. The action of confuting; disproving, disproof, overthrow in argument.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > refutation, disproof > [noun]
gainsayingc1330
assoilinga1382
improvingc1443
unprovingc1449
lancing1470
redarguation?c1500
confutationa1530
redargution1529
reproof1529
confusion1530
disproof1531
reprehension1531
reproving1535
refutation?1536
improbation1556
refuting1563
disproving1587
conviction1593
infringement1593
refutal1599
gainsay1602
eviction1606
convincement1612
disproval1614
confutinga1617
improof1641
confutement1645
confute1646
refute1646
disprovement1662
reviction1677
invalidatinga1716
invalidation1771
rebutment1823
rebuttal1831
disconfirmation1937
a1530 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfeccyon (1531) iii. f. CCxvi This poynt is put to the confutacyon..of all suche heretykes.
1532 More (title) The Confutacyon of Tindales Answere.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iv. i. 98 In confutation of which rude reproach..I craue the benefit of Law of Armes. View more context for this quotation
1671 J. Webster Metallographia iii. 40 It is needless to waste time in the confutation thereof.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1758 I. 181 [Johnson:] I have never read Bolingbroke's impiety, and therefore am not interested about its confutation.
a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) II. xxxv. 304 The first point..is his confutation of the Nominalists.
2. (with a and plural) The complete argument, statement, or treatise, in which anything is confuted.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > refutation, disproof > [noun] > instance of
confutationa1535
rejarg1534
rejag?1554
overthwart?1567
counter-proof1610
confute1646
disproof1657
rebutter1794
a1535 T. More Wks. (R.) 845 (R.) Suche thynges as I write..are clear confutacions of false blasphemous heresies.
1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. xvi. 414 Councils were held, confutations were published.
1874 J. Stoughton Church of Revol. xix. 425 Errors are separated from truths, and confutations supplied.
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