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Rebuttal   /rɪbˈətəl/  /ribˈətəl/   Listen
Rebuttal

noun
1.
The speech act of refuting by offering a contrary contention or argument.
2.
(law) a pleading by the defendant in reply to a plaintiff's surrejoinder.  Synonym: rebutter.





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"Rebuttal" Quotes from Famous Books



... went on, in the delight of hearing her voice in rebuttal, "the big pines give us the masts of ships and they build houses and furnish the kindling for the hardwood ...
— Over the Pass • Frederick Palmer
... said, finally, looking up, "that we shall present nothing in rebuttal. The case, as it now stands, doesn't seem to call for it." He had been considering whether it would be safe and wise for him to go on the witness-stand and deny any portion of Ralph's story. He had reached the conclusion that it would not. The ...
— Burnham Breaker • Homer Greene
... will leave the question of this million-dollar policy and other forms of importuning until the insurance companies offer something in rebuttal. ...
— Frenzied Finance - Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated • Thomas W. Lawson
... think up an adequate rebuttal when I came out of the air lock and into the ship. Then I felt better. P 1 means, among other things, first available transportation—but this giant was the newest type, crammed to the buffers with the results of science's latest efforts to make star voyageurs as safe as express-strip ...
— Attrition • Jim Wannamaker
... his record during the war in rebuttal of this false slander. When the white women and children of the South had no protector save only these Negroes, not one instance is known where the trust was betrayed. It is remarkably strange that the Negro had more respect for womanhood with the white men of the South hundreds of miles ...
— Mob Rule in New Orleans • Ida B. Wells-Barnett
... charge against the Germans is false or exaggerated, it is surely time to know it, but no mere denial or general argument can be accepted in rebuttal. The world must convince itself of the truth. The German crimes have been too many and too public, too well authenticated by witnesses to be disproved by mere denial. The best public opinion of the world has condemned military Germany as a barbarous outlaw. The crimes ...
— The World Decision • Robert Herrick
... and the State called its witnesses in rebuttal. They were entirely on the point of character. One testified that he had heard the prisoner say that, if the negroes had their rights, they would own at least half the property. Another testified that he had heard the defendant say that the negroes ...
— The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and - Selected Essays • Charles Waddell Chesnutt


Words linked to "Rebuttal" :   law, defence, pleading, jurisprudence, rebut, defense, refutation


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