Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which refutes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, refutes.
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- noun person who
refutes with an argument or example - noun an argument or example that
refutes
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a debater who refutes or disproves by offering contrary evidence or argument
Etymologies
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Examples
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Finally, if ID claims are refuted point-by-point, Dembski calls the refuter an “Internet stalker” or “inhabiting a fantasy life” or “obsessive”.
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In the words of Christopher Phelps, Bourne was an "elegant refuter of ‘pragmatic’ pretensions in those who believed that the state, even in a time of unleashed militarism, could be tamed simply by their own moral presence in the corridors of power."
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And it rarely happened that I left Errol without another tormentor of the Jews to add to my jest book of hell-hounds—Alexander Ratcliffe, leader of the Scottish Protestant Party, early refuter of the Holocaust, and not averse to posing in Nazi regalia; Austin J.
Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006
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He certainly did not say the last two sentences to me and has added these to his blog to embellish himself as the bold refuter of creationist nonsense.
Report on the 2005 Creation Mega Conference, Part Four - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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Tertullian means us to understand that Praxeas came to Carthage, and he explains the nameless refuter of Praxeas to be, not Tertullian himself, but Hippolytus.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Apparently Mr. Dresner is a careless reader or a devotee of the old trick of refuting an argument not made by an author but by the refuter, who has put it in the author’s mouth.
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"Well, well, my fair refuter," said the parson, who really feared his wife would rivet her affections on the young orphan if adopted; "you know it would never do to keep that little fellow with us.
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