The act or process of confuting; refutation.
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See Defense.
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Alt. of Defence
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A proving to be false or erroneous; confutation; refutation; as, to offer evidence in disproof of a statement.
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The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not.
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The act or process of refuting or disproving, or the state of being refuted; proof of falsehood or error; the overthrowing of an argument, opinion, t…
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To prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; to refute.
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To prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; to refute.
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