Redargution

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of redarguing; refutation. countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "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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"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."

Etymology

From Latin redargutio.

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