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Rebut   Listen
verb
Rebut  v. t.  (past & past part. rebutted; pres. part. rebutting)  
1.
To drive or beat back; to repulse. "Who him, rencount'ring fierce, as hawk in flight, Perforce rebutted back."
2.
(Law) To contradict, meet, or oppose by argument, plea, or countervailing proof.





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"Rebut" Quotes from Famous Books



... or it may not have been true of a majority in those days. True or not, it refers only to the opinions of individual colonists; and these cannot be received as a basis of construction for the words, nor can they rebut the plain intent, of a constitutional provision. It is not what individual colonists believed, but what the framers of the Constitution incorporated in that instrument, that we ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XII. July, 1863, No. LXIX. - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various


Words linked to "Rebut" :   disown, refute, rebuttal, disprove, contradict, renounce, controvert, oppose, confute, rebutter, answer, repudiate


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