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.

References

• “redargution”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.