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Disproof

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.
--Rogers.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
disproof

1530s; see dis- + proof.

Wiktionary
disproof

n. A refutation.

WordNet
disproof
  1. n. any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something [syn: falsification, refutation]

  2. the act of determining that something is false [syn: falsification, falsifying, refutation]

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.