refutation : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: refutation	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for refutation
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
refutation n the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions; "his refutation of the charges was short and persuasive"; "in defense he said the other man started it" Synonym(s): refutation, defense, defence any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something Synonym(s): disproof, falsification, refutation the act of determining that something is false Synonym(s): falsification, falsifying, disproof, refutation, refutal
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Refutation \Ref`uta"tion\ (r?f`?t?"sh?n), n. [L. refutatio: cf. F. r[82]futation.] The act or process of refuting or disproving, or the state of being refuted; proof of falsehood or error; the overthrowing of an argument, opinion, testimony, doctrine, or theory, by argument or countervailing proof. Same of his blunders seem rather to deserve a flogging than a refutation. --Macaulay.