Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
noun
- an act of refuting a statement, charge, etc.; disproof.
noun
- the act or process of refuting
- something that refutes; disproof
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).