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Rebut [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To retire back. obsolete

2. To answer, as a plaintiff's sur-rejoinder.

3. The plaintiff may answer the rejoinder by a sur-rejoinder; on which the defendant may rebut

Rebut [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To repel; to oppose by argument, plea or countervailing proof. [It is used by lawyers in a general sense.]

Rebut [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To retire; to recoil.

2. To make, or put in, an answer, as to a plaintiff's surrejoinder.

Rebut [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To drive or beat back; to repulse.

2. To contradict, meet, or oppose by argument, plea, or countervailing proof.

Rebuttable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Capable of being rebutted.

Rebuttal [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The giving of evidence on the part of a plaintiff to destroy the effect of evidence introduced by the defendant in the same suit.

Rebutted [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Repelled; answered.

Rebutted [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Rebutter [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. In law pleadings, the answer of a defendant to a plaintiff's sur-rejoinder.

2. If I grant to a tenant to hold without impeachment of waste, and afterward implead him for waste done, he may debar me of this action by showing my grant, which is a rebutter

Rebutter [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The answer of a defendant in matter of fact to a plaintiff's surrejoinder.

Rebutting [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Repelling; opposing by argument, countervailing allegation or evidence.

Rebutting [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Answer Roget’s Thesaurus §462

N. answer, response, reply, replication, riposte, # rejoinder, surrejoinder, rebutter, surrebutter, retort, repartee, rescript, rescription, antiphon, antiphony, acknowledgment, password, echo, counter statement, discovery, solution, rationale, clue, oedipus, oracle, return

V. answer, respond, reply, rebut, retort, rejoin, give for answer, return for answer, acknowledge, echo, explain, solve, discover, fathom, hunt out, satisfy, set at rest, determine

Adj. answering, responsive, respondent, conclusive

Adv. because, on the scent, on the right scent

Int. eureka

Counter Evidence Roget’s Thesaurus §468

N. counter evidence, evidence on the other side, evidence on the other hand, conflicting evidence, contradictory evidence, opposing evidence, disproof, refutation, negation, plea, vindication counter protest, "tu quoque" argument, other side of the shield, other side of the coin, reverse of the shield

V. countervail, oppose, mitigate against, rebut, subvert, cheek, weaken, contravene, contradict, tell the other side of the story, tell another story, turn the scale, alter the case, turn the tables, cut both ways, prove a negative, audire alteram partem

Adj. countervailing, contradictory, unattested, unauthenticated, unsupported by evidence, supposititious

Adv. on the contrary, per contra

Confutation Roget’s Thesaurus §479

N. {ant 478} confutation, refutation, answer, complete answer, disproof, conviction, redargution, invalidation, exposure, exposition, clincher, retort, reductio ad absurdum, knock down argument, tu quoque argument, sockdolager *, correction, dissuasion

V. confute, refute, disprove, parry, negative, controvert, rebut, confound, disconfirm, redargue, expose, show the fallacy of, defeat, demolish, break, overthrow, overturn scatter to the winds, explode, invalidate, silence, put to silence, reduce to silence, clinch an argument, clinch a question, give one a setdown, stop the mouth, shut up, have, have on the hip, not leave a leg to stand on, cut the ground from under one's feet, be confuted &c, fail, expose one's weak point, show one's weak point, counter evidence

Adj. confuting, confuted, &c. v, capable of refutation, refutable, confutable, defeasible, contravene (counter evidence) 468, condemned on one's own showing, condemned out of one's own mouth

Phr. the argument falls to the ground, cadit quaestio, it does not hold water, "suo sibi gladio hunc jugulo", his argument was demolished by new evidence

Negation Roget’s Thesaurus §536

N. negation, abnegation, denial, disavowal, disclaimer, abjuration, contradiction, contravention, recusation, protest, recusancy, flat contradiction, emphatic contradiction, emphatic denial, dementi, qualification, repudiation, retraction, confutation, refusal, prohibition

V. deny, contradict, contravene, controvert, give denial to, gainsay, negative, shake the head, disown, disaffirm, disclaim, disavow, recant, revoke, dispute, impugn, traverse, rebut, join issue upon, bring in question, call in question, give (one) the lie in his throat, deny flatly, deny peremptorily, deny emphatically, deny absolutely, deny wholly, deny entirely, give the lie to, belie, repudiate, set aside, ignore, rebut, qualify, refuse, recuse

Adj. denying, denied, contradictory, negative, negatory, recusant, at issue upon

Adv. no, nay, not, nowise, not a bit, not a whit, not a jot, not at all, nohow, not in the least, not so, negative, negatory, no way, no such thing, nothing of the kind, nothing of the sort, quite the contrary, tout au contraire, far from it, tant s'en faut, on no account, in no respect, by no, by no manner of means, negatively, never, never in a million years, at no time

Phr. there never was a greater mistake, i know better, non haec in faedera, a thousand times no