counter-proof

If your opponent presses you with a counter-proof, you will often be able to save yourself by advancing some subtle distinction, which, it is true, had not previously occurred to you; that is, if the matter admits of a double application, or of being taken in any ambiguous sense.

The Art of Controversy 2004

If, moreover, he cannot even attempt a counter-proof that it is not true, far more likely is he to be thought ill-tempered-although even counter-proof is not enough: for we often hear arguments that are contrary to common opinions, whose solution is yet difficult, e.g. the argument of

Topics 2002

Lecour saluted and retired, and the Adjutant wrote a notice for de Léry to prepare his counter-proof.

The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette William Douw Lighthall

And this proof (or the counter-proof) I am about to seek in Italy.

The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) 1907

And this proof (or the counter-proof) I am about to seek in Italy.

The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Kenyon, Frederic G 1898

Now we have to present the counter-proof of this theory.

System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery 1888

The plastic imagination furnishes us a counter-proof: it transposes inversely.

Essai sur l'imagination créatrice. English Albert Heyem Nachmen Baron 1877

These gastronomic experiments called for a counter-proof.

Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

His documentary proofs were all in order, his witnesses were numerous and positive, and Lady Louvaine possessed no counter-proof of any kind to rebut this unheard-of claim.

It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot Emily Sarah Holt 1864

History affords us the counter-proof and confirmation of the philosophical doctrine.

System der volkswirthschaft. English Wilhelm Roscher 1855