(law) a pleading by the defendant in reply to a plaintiff's surrejoinder

Usage examples of rebuttal.

With difficulty Marris swallowed the anger that the remarks ignited within him and focused it into a quiet but ruthless rebuttal which was many times more effective than any ranting denunciation.

So on, assertion, rejoinder, surrejoinder, and rebuttal, till the dispassionate philosopher in the pillows wearied of his conceit and directed his thoughts toward breakfast.

In the meantime, we regret to announce that we have overbooked this rebuttal, and we are asking for readers who are willing to give up their space in exchange for an opportunity to read two future rebuttals on a topic of your choice.

Slowly Youngman led him through a rebuttal of the testimony presented by the prosecution.

As each retort became gruffer, and its consequential rebuttal more to the point, she felt Janet tremble.

And during the next-to-last television de­bate—when Congressman Borax rose in desperate rebuttal to Clarissima Strunt—Shepherd Mibs at last came into his own.

There was some discussion among the more knowledgeable onlookers of nanocarbon tubes embedded in a bonding ceramic or glass matrix, but the dullish appearance of the intruder’s matte epidermis provided little in the way of support or rebuttal for such theory.

Third had ranted on and on about the dangers of such a concession, then glared at Todd to make the translation of ten minutes of rebuttal.

Taking one thing with another, and allowing four months on the average for each necessary round trip to the West Indies to take evidence on commission, and taking into account demurrers and rebuttals and sur-rebuttals, the Lord Chancellor thinks that it will be thirty-seven years before any case reaches the House of Lords, and he went on to say, cackling into his soup, that our interest in the case will be greatly diminished by then.

His grandmother's anger at his father's mildly delivered rebuttal was such that Rojer strengthened his shields.