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Meanings of refutal in English

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confutació

The act of determining that something is false.

        confutació
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        Examples for "refutation"
        Examples for "refutation"
        1
        In all refutation, keep close to the fundamental principles of the question.
        Elements of Debating / A Manual for Use in High Schools and Acad...
        2
        The candidate was too busy talking about hope to stoop to refutation.
        Game change: obama and the clintons, mccain and palin, and the r...
        3
        It was hardly an elegant refutation, but it had to be said.
        The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide
        4
        The justice of the Single Tax is beyond all question of refutation.
        The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 10
        5
        Now much of it is so false that it needs no refutation.
        Paradoxes of Catholicism
        1
        Three employees involved in falsifying electrical safety data were dismissed, Baxter said.
        Reuters
        2
        Critics have in the past accused the government of falsifying economic statistics.
        Reuters
        3
        These include falsifying information as well as colluding to have drugs transported.
        The South African
        4
        Prosecutors have charged Ghosn with falsifying financial reports in under-reporting his compensation.
        The Guardian
        5
        A second charge accuses him of falsifying records of an investment adviser.
        Reuters
        1
        The second example of 'falsification' is surely in the realm of empirics.
        Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy
        2
        In the extreme, all scientific knowledge would consist of instances of falsification.
        Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy
        3
        It can be broken down into three areas, fabrication, falsification and plagiarism.
        The Irish Times
        4
        In no way did this feel to him like forgery or falsification.
        Anil's ghost
        5
        I suspect that it's some falsification on the part of the inspector.
        A Confederacy of Dunces
        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
        Usage of refutal in English
        1
        Such argument is hardly worthy of serious refutal, since it stultifies itself.
        Plain Facts for Old and Young
        2
        He had kept Adela's warning in mind, and determined to be calmly dignified in his refutal of the charges brought against him.
        Demos
        Frequent collocations
        Translations for refutal
        Refutal through the time