refutal
Example Sentences
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This new refutal of all laws of reason by which she had learned, as it were, to spell her theory of life, was too much for her equilibrium.
From The Wind in the rose-bush and other stories of the supernatural by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Such argument is hardly worthy of serious refutal, since it stultifies itself.
From Plain Facts for Old and Young by John Harvey Kellogg
However, the girl had, in spite of her childlike trust in the beauty of her life, plenty of strength to meet its refutal, and a pride equal to her grandmother's.
From The Portion of Labor by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
He had kept Adela's warning in mind, and determined to be calmly dignified in his refutal of the charges brought against him.
From Demos by George Gissing
Pity the words spent in the refutal of such "reasons" and views!
From Woman under socialism by Daniel De Leon
