Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of confuting.
- n. Something that confutes.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of confuting, disproving, or proving to be false or invalid; overthrow, as of arguments, opinions, reasoning, theories, or conclusions.
Wiktionary
- n. The act or process of confuting; refutation.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act or process of confuting; refutation.
WordNet 3.0
- n. evidence that refutes conclusively
- n. the speech act of refuting conclusively
Examples
“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.”
“But his confutation was the factual confutation of experience.”
“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!”
“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.”
“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.”
“Yet, in the confutation to the President's address, Governor Bobby Jindal, of Louisiana presented the traditional divisive wisdom.”
“I like confutation much better, obscure though it may be in the average Canadian vernacular.”
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“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.”
“But, this notion of Matter seems too extravagant to deserve a confutation.”
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, by George Berkeley
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jmjarmstrong JM thoroughly enjoys a good confutation as long as it’s someone else being confuted Jun 27, 2009