Definition of "confutation" [con•fu•ta•tion]

• The act of confuting. (noun)
• Something that confutes. (noun)

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• "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!"