redargution

English

Etymology

From Latin redargutio.

Noun

redargution (countable and uncountable, plural redargutions)

  1. (obsolete) The act of redarguing; refutation.
    • 1620, Francis Bacon, Novum Organum:
      (Preface)
      that part of the book which we term the destroying , consists of a threefold argument of redargution or exposure ; redargution of the philosophies ; redargution of the demonstrations ; and redargution of human reason in its natural course.

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