noun. The act of confuting.

noun. Something that confutes.

noun. The act of confuting, disproving, or proving to be false or invalid; overthrow, as of arguments, opinions, reasoning, theories, or conclusions.

noun. The act or process of confuting; refutation.

noun. The act or process of confuting; refutation.

noun. evidence that refutes conclusively

noun. the speech act of refuting conclusively

"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."

confutation of the person  

defence  defense  disproof  falsification  refutation  

absurdum  although  animadversion  berate  broken_one  

refutation