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confutation|kɒnfjuːˈteɪʃən|
[ad. L. confūtātiōn-em, n. of action from confūtāre to confute. (Also in mod.F.; not in Cotgr., 1611.)]
1. The action of confuting; disproving, disproof, overthrow in argument.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 216 This poynt is put to the confutacyon..of all suche heretykes. 1532More (title), The Confutacyon of Tindales Answere. 1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, iv. i. 98. 1671 J. Webster Metallogr. iii. 40 It is needless to waste time in the confutation thereof. 1758Johnson in Boswell, Sir, I have never read Bolingbroke's impiety, and therefore am not interested about its confutation. 1836–7Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. (1859) II. xxxv. 304 The first point..is his Confutation of the Nominalists.
2. (with a and pl.) The complete argument, statement, or treatise, in which anything is confuted.
a1535More Wks. 845 (R.) Suche thynges as I write..are clear confutacions of false blasphemous heresies. 1776Gibbon Decl. & F. I. xvi. 414 Councils were held, confutations were published. 1874J. Stoughton Church of Rev. xix. 425 Errors are separated from truths, and confutations supplied. |