0 a statement that says that something is not true: --
She issued a point-by-point rebuttal of the company's accusations.
2 a statement that says or proves that something is not true: --
Scriveners were commissioned by the authorities to examine legal documents, and were licensed to write legal documents such as plaints and rebuttals.
Each of these objections, rebuttals, rejoinders and surrejoinders is in itself admirable, and does infinite credit to the acuteness and candour of the author.
These few issued a rebuttal against all the accolades showered on the late leader and the ' national-state burial ' accorded him.
The denial that fetuses are persons, even though broadly supported, is still subject to cogent rebuttal.
The public debates and rebuttals engendered by this criticism played an important part in disseminating information about the operation.
These sobering reflections are a significant rebuttal to the palaver of political scientists who are obsessed with regional hegemony.
There is no general rebuttal here of the mechanisms that are currently available for the purposes of truth recovery.
The rebuttal is more clearly regarded to be a dialectical component and is therefore omitted from this essentially non-dialectical frame.
