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confutation

[ kon-fyoo-tey-shuhn ]

noun

  1. the act of confuting.
  2. something that confutes.
  3. Classical Oratory. the fourth section of a speech, given over to direct refutation.


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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ³¦´Ç²Ô·´Ú³Ü³Ù·²¹Â·³Ù¾±±¹±ð [k, uh, n-, fyoo, -t, uh, -tiv], adjective
  • ³Ü²Ôc´Ç²Ô·´Ú³Ü³Ùa·³Ù¾±±¹±ð adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of confutation1

1425–75; late Middle English confutacioun (< Middle French ) < Latin ³¦´Ç²Ô´ÚÅ«³ÙÄå³Ù¾±Å²Ô- (stem of ³¦´Ç²Ô´ÚÅ«³ÙÄå³Ù¾±Å ), equivalent to ³¦´Ç²Ô´ÚÅ«³ÙÄå³Ù ( us ) silenced (past participle of ³¦´Ç²Ô´ÚÅ«³ÙÄå°ù±ð; confute, -ate 1 ) + -¾±Å²Ô- -ion
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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.

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One Simon Geddicus, a Lutheran divine, wrote a serious confutation of this libel upon the fair sex, in 1595, and promises the ladies an expectation of salvation on their good behaviour.

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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 idea of a revengeful God is likewise one of that sort, but this idea of divinity being borrowed from a savage nature, needs no further confutation.

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