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Confutation

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The act of confuting.

n. Something that confutes.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The act or process of confuting; refutation.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The act or process of confuting; refutation.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The act of confuting, disproving, or proving to be false or invalid; overthrow, as of arguments, opinions, reasoning, theories, or conclusions.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. evidence that refutes conclusively

n. the speech act of refuting conclusively

Word Usage

"Some hold the Koranic passage to have been revealed in confutation of the Jews, who pretended that if a man lay with his wife backwards, he would beget a cleverer child."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

refutation falsification disproof defense defence

Cross Reference

confutation of the person

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

refutation

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

animadversion disproof although promiscuousness reprehension