refutation
- an act of refuting a statement, charge, etc.; disproof.
Origin of refutation
Related Words for refutation
rebuttal, denial, refusal, contradiction, refutal, confutation, disproof, argument, elenchusExamples from the Web for refutation
Contemporary Examples of refutation
Which is not exactly a refutation or a denial so much as a talking point aimed at giving political partisans something to say.
Charlus' physical bravery is Proust's refutation of an ancient antigay stereotype.
Step Five: For each answer formulates new searches to find evidence in support or refutation of answer—score the evidence.
Historical Examples of refutation
He could assert now, without fear of refutation, that Stryker had lied.
The Black BagLouis Joseph Vance
What should be the climax of a triumphant argument becomes its refutation.
Shelley, Godwin and Their CircleH. N. Brailsford
For now, as always, I am unequal to the refutation of not-being.
SophistPlato
The conclusion at which we must arrive is that the Parmenides is not a refutation of the Eleatic philosophy.
ParmenidesPlato
How then, without a word of explanation, could Plato assign to them the refutation of their own tenets?
ParmenidesPlato
refutation
- the act or process of refuting
- something that refutes; disproof
Word Origin and History for refutation
1540s, from Middle French réfutation (16c.) and directly from Latin refutationem (nominative refutatio) "disproof of a claim or argument," noun of action from past participle stem of refutare (see refute).