refutal

Example Sentences

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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 Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins

Pity the words spent in the refutal of such "reasons" and views!

From Woman under socialism by De Leon, Daniel

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 Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins

He had rarely, if ever, known his daughter to make such an explicit refutal of his inferences.

From The Free Range by Duer, Douglas

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 Gissing, George