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Meanings of refutation in English

Portuguese
refutação
Catalan
confutació

The act of determining that something is false.

        refutação
        Catalan
        defensa

        The speech act of answering an attack on your assertions.

              defensa
              Usage of refutation in English
              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
              6
              The recent history of our colleges is a refutation of this conclusion.
              The Story of Wellesley
              7
              This incident seemed a refutation of the charge that she was calculating.
              A Far Country — Volume 1
              8
              But Mrs. Leonard herself is the strongest refutation of her own argument.
              Debate on Woman Suffrage in the Senate of the United States, / 2...
              9
              POLUS: A proposition which is harder of refutation than the other, Socrates.
              Gorgias
              10
              Mr. George Frederick Augustus Howard blushed indignant refutation of the calumnious charge.
              Alice, or the Mysteries — Book 07
              11
              For now, as always, I am unequal to the refutation of not-being.
              Sophist
              12
              The supposition is too grossly unreasonable, too monstrous, to require labored refutation.
              Harvard Classics Volume 28 / Essays English and American
              13
              He also refutes Rashi at times, but his refutation is often wrong.
              Rashi
              14
              It was misreported as the definitive refutation of the entire MMR-autism hypothesis.
              Bad science
              15
              Is not a fact the complete and unanswerable refutation of its impossibility?
              Across the Zodiac / The Story of a Wrecked Record
              16
              Swift's head is a refutation of phrenology, being small, sloping and ordinary.
              Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 / Little J...
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              Translations for refutation
              Portuguese
              refutação
              Refutation through the time
              Refutation across language varieties
              United Kingdom
              Common
              United States of America
              Less common