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Refutation
Answer for the clue "Refutation ", 8 letters:
disproof
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A refutation.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s; see dis- + proof .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something [syn: falsification , refutation ] the act of determining that something is false [syn: falsification , falsifying , refutation ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disproof \Dis*proof"\, n. [Pref. dis- + proof. Cf. Disprove .] A proving to be false or erroneous; confutation; refutation; as, to offer evidence in disproof of a statement. I need not offer anything farther in support of one, or in disproof of the other. ...
Usage examples of disproof.
Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically worthless, whatever value they may have in inspiring us or in exciting our sense of wonder.
Proprietary feelings are of course offended when a scientific hypothesis is disproved, but such disproofs are recognized as central to the scientific enterprise.
Democrats are the Party of the People and Republicans the Party of the Powerful has been repeated so often that by now it is incapable of disproof.