confutation
IPA: kʌnfjutˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- The act or process of confuting; refutation.
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Examples of "confutation" in Sentences
- But his confutation was the factual confutation of experience.
- But, this notion of Matter seems too extravagant to deserve a confutation.
- I like confutation much better, obscure though it may be in the average Canadian vernacular.
- As I am still in possession of that imperfect organ, I will proceed to use it to the confutation of some of his other fallacies.
- Yet, in the confutation to the President's address, Governor Bobby Jindal, of Louisiana presented the traditional divisive wisdom.
- Dar Hyal, alone, with his blastic theory of art, can specially apply it to music to the confutation of all the first words and the last.
- Some hold the Koranic passage to have been revealed in confutation of the Jews, who pretended that if a man lay with his wife backwards, he would beget a cleverer child.
- And the refutation of these has been such as alone it could be: that is to say, by signs and the evidence of causes, since no other kind of confutation was open to me, differing as I do from the others both on first principles and on rules of demonstration.
- Seiffmilts, in his great work concerning the divine order and regularity in the destiny of the human race, has a chapter entitled a confutation of this idea; I read it with great eagerness, and found therein that this idea militated against the glory and goodness of God, and must therefore be false, -- but further confutation found I none!
- Seiffmilts, [2] in his great work concerning the divine order and regularity in the destiny of the human race, has a chapter entitled a confutation of this idea; I read it with great eagerness, and found therein that this idea militated against the glory and goodness of God, and must therefore be false, -- but further confutation found I none!
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