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- con·fut·a·tive [k, uh, n-, fyoo, -t, uh, -tiv], adjective
- uncon·futa·tive adjective
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Origin of confutation1
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Your portrayal of her is the finest confutation of The Method I have ever witnessed.
It threatens his whole doctrine of compact, and its darling derivatives, nullification and secession, with instant confutation.
For the confutation of this whole reasoning it might be sufficient to ask:—Has it produced these effects?
The preface contained the first declaration of his famous formula which was applied to the confutation of Blackstone.
Trifles light as air are confirmation strong as proofs of Holy Writ, and confutation no less strong.
He had published his doubts in 1823, but his final confutation of the theory of parallelism is found in this Scholion.
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