refutation
pronunciation
How to pronounce refutation in British English:
UK [ˌrefjʊ'teɪʃn]
How to pronounce refutation in American English:
US [ˌrɛfjʊˈteʃən]
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- Noun:
- the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions
- any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something
- the act of determining that something is false
Word Origin
- refutation (n.)
- 1540s, from Middle French réfutation (16c.) and directly from Latin refutationem (nominative refutatio) "disproof of a claim or argument," noun of action from past participle stem of refutare (see refute).
Example
- 1. What ever the accuser said , he could give corresponding refutation .
- 2. So it is surprising that a refutation of such an idea is unexpected .
- 3. Last year 's events in capital markets were a definitive refutation of the theory .
- 4. This mountain of holy books is a giant refutation of the secularisation thesis-the idea that religion recedes as the world modernises .
- 5. In a message circulated by the u.s. citizen services section of the u.s. embassy in beijing wednesday afternoon , the state department offered a rather categorical refutation of rumors about radiation drifting across the east china sea .