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confutation

/kon-fyoo-tey-shuhn/US // ˌkɒn fyʊˈteɪ ʃən //

混淆视听,矛盾,调和,混淆是非

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of confuting.
    • : something that confutes.
    • : Classical Oratory. the fourth section of a speech, given over to direct refutation.

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Examples

  • 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.