But his confutation was the factual confutation of experience. From Wordnik.com. [The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1] Reference
No further time Ile spend in confutation. From Wordnik.com. [Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning, Full of Delight] Reference
Dean Duport's epigram upon the Bishop's confutation of Hobbes. From Wordnik.com. [The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See] Reference
The third is a confutation of the heretics 'objections against it. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
A supposition, which, in our view, carries its own confutation in it. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons on Various Important Subjects] Reference
I send you the boasted confutation-letter, just now put into my hands. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
It is not my purpose here to divert unto the confutation of that fancy. From Wordnik.com. [Pneumatologia] Reference
But, this notion of Matter seems too extravagant to deserve a confutation. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, by George Berkeley] Reference
As if in ridicule and confutation of the prophecy, no sooner has he ended than. From Wordnik.com. [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference
Arrogance is removed by confutation; and Socrates was the first who practiced this. From Wordnik.com. [The Discourses of Epictetus] Reference
I like confutation much better, obscure though it may be in the average Canadian vernacular. From Wordnik.com. [Rebuttal: The Tamil Protesters Are Not My People « Unambiguously Ambidextrous] Reference
Hence you may more clearly perceive the force of Christ's confutation, which we have verses 17-20. From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
'Norway,' our author urges, 'affords a strong confutation of the dreaded excessive subdivision of land. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
Nelson was exceedingly indignant at such a statement, and addressed a letter in confutation of it to the Adjutant. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson]
Have we not frequent apologies of our divines for the confutation of such false, malicious, and putid criminations?. From Wordnik.com. [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference
He had published his doubts in 1823, but his final confutation of the theory of parallelism is found in this Scholion. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
But if we would have a more philosophical confutation of this theory, perhaps the two following reflections may suffice. From Wordnik.com. [An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding] Reference
But confutation is easy: for they are called signs of certain things, not signs to denote whatever is according to our fancy. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1] Reference
As I am still in possession of that imperfect organ, I will proceed to use it to the confutation of some of his other fallacies. From Wordnik.com. [Chesterton's Response to Shaw (Part Two)] Reference
Yet, in the confutation to the President's address, Governor Bobby Jindal, of Louisiana presented the traditional divisive wisdom. From Wordnik.com. [Republicans Twitter. Jindal Rebuttal; A Tweet] Reference
A confutation of this sect was written in the year 1579; the privy council called upon the convocation of the year 1580 to notice it. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 43, August 24, 1850] Reference
He addressed, however, to the king an ample and modest confutation of Arianism, which we have under the title of his Three Books to King. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
Dar Hyal, alone, with his blastic theory of art, can specially apply it to music to the confutation of all the first words and the last. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER XIV] Reference
His preaching, as Sainte-Beuve well says, may be considered to have been, in the preacher's intention, one prolonged confutation of Pascal's immortal indictment. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
For the harmony of a science, supporting each part the other, is and ought to be the true and brief confutation and suppression of all the smaller sort of objections. From Wordnik.com. [The Advancement of Learning] Reference
It was evidently of no use to attempt a confutation of this, and the subject dropped. From Wordnik.com. [Timothy Crump's Ward A Story of American Life] Reference
Other examples in abundance, in confutation of his assumption, could no doubt be furnished. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman Who Dared] Reference
This is often said in our own country, and we need not say what we advance in its confutation. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877] Reference
When the child died a few days after, the prophet was abashed, and quite unable to account for this summary confutation. From Wordnik.com. [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02] Reference
This romance rests on no evidence, and, though it has been repeated down to our own time, seems hardly to deserve confutation. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2] Reference
Howel, in his Letters, mentions the new doctrine with contempt; and it was, I suppose, thought more worthy of derision than of confutation. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley] Reference
Further, the entire controversy is a complete confutation of the false allegation that between Catholicism and science there is a great gulf set. From Wordnik.com. [Science and Morals and Other Essays] Reference
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