It was never retracted and never rebutted, but it was not true.
It is true that that presumption can be rebutted by evidence to the contrary.
I have explained what is happening, and that cannot be rebutted.
That is to say, there will be a presumption of legitimacy, a presumption which in certain cases may be rebutted.
They dealt clearly with the question of divided loyalty and rebutted it.
One would think that those were conclusive arguments, but they were very ably rebutted—and by whom?
But this presumption may be rebutted if the circumstances of the case show that, in point of fact, she was not coerced.
Corelli rebutted these charges in a number of fictional and nonfictional writings, accusing the largely male press of ignorance and a misogynistic antipathy toward women writers.