confutation

How To Use confutation In A Sentence

• But, this notion of Matter seems too extravagant to deserve a confutation. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, by George Berkeley
• Have we not frequent apologies of our divines for the confutation of such false, malicious, and putid criminations? The Sermons of John Owen
• But why then did not those profound rabbies amongst the Jews, and the Stoicks and Epicureans (those oracles of reason) amongst the philosophers, baffle and refel these babblers, and so dashing their absurd doctrine in its first rise, prevent its spreading, by a mature and thorough confutation? Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.
• Seiffmilts, in his great work concerning the divine order and regularity in the destiny of the human race, has a chapter entitled a confutation of this idea; I read it with great eagerness, and found therein that this idea militated against the glory and goodness of God, and must therefore be false, -- but further confutation found I none! Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
• 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. CHAPTER XIV
• 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. Chesterton's Response to Shaw (Part Two)
• He quotes without confutation the assertion that ‘the globe may be surveyed and history may be reviewed in vain for any evidence of a considerable country in which want can be fairly attributed to an increasing population.’
• Some hold the Koranic passage to have been revealed in confutation of the Jews, who pretended that if a man lay with his wife backwards, he would beget a cleverer child. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• When the child died a few days after, the prophet was abashed, and quite unable to account for this summary confutation.
• We do, then, plainly supererogate as to the cause in hand, by the confutation of the answers which Mr Goodwin farther attempts to remove, and his endeavour therein; which yet shall not be declined. The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed