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Meanings of disproof in English

Portuguese
refutação
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confutació

The act of determining that something is false.

        refutação
        Usage of disproof in English
        1
        The only possible disproof which Sir Charles could offer was an alibi.
        The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2
        2
        And the entries in the diary set at naught dogmatic assertions of disproof.
        The Confessions of a Beachcomber
        3
        The following limited pages are devoted to a disproof of this age-long error.
        Iranian Influence on Moslem Literature, Part I
        4
        But the proof or disproof of that never reached the public.
        The War in the Air
        5
        All about the Navajo then was dark and solemn disproof of her belief.
        The Rainbow Trail
        6
        The disproof of Darwinism on the basis of scientific research is an accomplished fact.
        At the Deathbed of Darwinism: A Series of Papers
        7
        This is historically true and beyond disproof even in religion.
        A Compilaton on Women
        8
        He gave instances of disproof in his own unended career.
        Cinderella in the South: Twenty-Five South African Tales
        9
        The disproof of this and of Freudianism are equally impossible.
        The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10
        10
        The perturbations of the planetary motions are a confirmation, not a disproof, of gravity.
        History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science
        11
        Still, Bianca will be the proof or disproof of that.
        Children of Time
        12
        Our present lack of recollection of past lives is no disproof of their actuality.
        The Destiny of the Soul: A Critical History of the Doctrine of a...
        13
        It must be noted, however, that this disproof relates only to known existing organisms.
        The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
        14
        The scientific method is adequate to deal with all questions capable of proof or disproof.
        The Last Harvest
        15
        But no disproof has been brought against the fish-bone!
        Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts
        16
        Those Epistles of Paul which Baur admits to be genuine contain abundant disproof of his theory.
        Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People
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        Portuguese
        refutação
        Disproof through the time