Definition of “refutation”

Usage examples

• The subsequent unanticipated baby boom, of course, was a salutary refutation of the commission's demographic determinism.

  Spiked (2004)

• The animal's screaming should be a convincing refutation of Versfeld's strange contentions.

  SA Star (2005)

• Vincent, particularly as played by the anodyne Hawke, is not so much a character as a walking refutation of genetic engineering.

  Independent (1998)

• He could not be effectively caught out, because this is at least half a subjective state, and he was impervious to refutation.

  Jenkins, Roy, Truman (1986)