Other Word Forms
- confutative adjective
- unconfutative adjective
Etymology
Origin of confutation
1425–75; late Middle English confutacioun (< Middle French ) < Latin confūtātiōn- (stem of confūtātiō ), equivalent to confūtāt ( us ) silenced (past participle of confūtāre; confute, -ate 1 ) + -iōn- -ion
Example Sentences
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Some are, but others take place silently, as Boyle says, without anyone bothering to write confutations of the old theory.
From Literature
At such times the sight of that road whence he had looked upwards to her window was a consolation, almost a confutation of her dreams.
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Such a scrupulous confutation of self is to be expected as little from mystic visions as from arrogant dogmatism.
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The author of "The Rights of Man" may therefore be a confutation of his own dictum: "An hereditary governor is as inconsistent as an hereditary author."
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But Mr. George persuades himself that they would answer it otherwise, and devotes the next section of his book to an elaborate confutation of the false answers he supposes they would return to it.
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