Hypertext Webster Gateway: "refutation"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Refutation \Ref`u*ta"tion\ (r?f`?*t?"sh?n), n. [L. refutatio:
cf. F. r['e]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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
refutation
n 1: 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" [syn: {defense}, {defence}]
2: any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of
something [syn: {disproof}, {falsification}]
3: the act of determining that something is false [syn: {falsification},
{falsifying}, {disproof}]
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