On purely defensive lines, early apologists rebut charges of cannibalism and sexual promiscuity; the Christians had to meet in secret, and the gossip of a rotten age drew malignant conclusions.
The Old Testament does not argue in support of its beliefs, unless when (chiefly in parts of the Wisdom literature) it seeks to rebut moral difficulties (cf.
If we should argue with the reverend gentleman that the census shows an equality of males and females, this argument that I have now advanced will rebut the idea thus sought to be established.
I did expect to hear something in those eleven minutes that would in some small degree rebut the numerous evidences brought forth to establish and sanction polygamy.
The expression 'on the other hand' is meant torebut the pûrvapaksha.
This objection we rebut by the remark that it involves an abandonment of the direct meaning of the sacred text.
This he declined; he had produced ample testimony as to character but of course had failed to rebut the evidence of the unknown witnesses who had denounced him.
The heirs appealed to Ximenes, who commissioned judges to revise the sentence, but these refused to the heirs a copy of the proceedings, by which alone they could rebut the evidence.
In replying, he did not attempt to rebutthe criticisms passed on his client and on his conduct of the case, professing to take the attitude of dignified disregard.
Lester Curtis were called to rebut the expert testimony for the State.
While the law presumes every man innocent until proven guilty, yet it is not such a presumption as to rebut evidence.
He would therefore only take a short view of it in his way, and endeavor to rebut a part of the argument of the gentleman from Massachusetts, and perhaps to notice some of the observations of the gentleman from Connecticut.
We shall not again pause to rebut the familiar cry of response, to the effect that he was mad and not accountable for the uttermost madness of error.
It appears that some effort, laudable if wholly sincere, and not condemnable if partly coloured by personal feeling, has been made to rebut the charges brought against Stothard and Cromek by the biographer of Blake.
The scruples of either side are called prejudices by the other; and neither can rebut the accusation upon solid grounds of reason.
Weakness in arithmetic and a prurient imagination have, no doubt, given rise to the above elegant extract; but we rebut it by informing our friend of the New Englander that there is a difference between 28.
On the other hand, no disinterested and unbiased evidence was secured tending to rebut these conditions.
Upon the declared inability to furnish testimony to rebut the record of mental disease prior to enlistment, the claim for pension was rejected in 1883.
To rebut unimportant details, admitted matter, mere illustrations, and errors obviously due to haste in speaking, is a fault that every debater should carefully avoid.
But let us see if there be any presumption in his favor to rebut the presumption which he knew was irresistible, and which, by making no defence for his conduct, and stopping the inquiry, must necessarily lie upon him.
Thus the reward of his effort to reason down the menacing Lollards and rebut Wiclif [1852] was his formal disgrace and virtual imprisonment.
It contains a purely pantheistic statement of the cosmic problem, [303] and among the apologues is one in which a boy of twelve years is made tersely and cogently to rebut the teleological view of things.
This "Religion of joyous right-doing," Fichte farther carried out in the writings which he put forth torebut the charge of atheism.
Never would an assembly of respectable persons permit itself to say to a woman, whatever she might be, that she was 'le rebut de la nature entière.
Whether he wrote the passage which claims to rebut an argument in his own Pensées philosophiques [1109] is surely doubtful.
If it please the Court, therefore, I will withdraw the witness, though by so doing I am forced to yield all hope of eliciting the important fact I had relied upon to rebut the defence.
Evidence to rebutor prove false the matters advanced in support of the defence.
But to rebut those statements of Gregorovius's there is scarce the need to pose these questions; sufficiently does Gregorovius himselfrebut them.
The malignant industry of our enemies in propagating these monstrous slanders, compels us, therefore, to pause at the outset of the discussion, to rebut them, and disabuse the minds of readers.
We defy all the sophisms of the whole crew of the perverse and destitute of the truth, to obscure, much less to rebut this answer, without denying the inspiration and even the common truthfulness of Moses.
Mr. Frick was recalled and permitted to rebut some of the assertions made by the workingmen.
A man has the right to rebut only the testimony addressed against him, and that is so strong that if you committed the murder you would not have a chance to prove I did it.
She has not so many lovers that she can afford to rebut the tenderness of even so small a one as Master Harborough.
Moore says so, not as one who makes a charge, but as one who makes an admission to rebut a graver charge, and is full of sympathy for the exuberance of lusty youth.
There was no chance to rebut anything which the latter alleged that they had observed, and their testimony, save in so far as it was inconsistent or contradictory in itself, remained irrefutable.
To rebut this demand, the American Commissioners, among other things, claimed compensation for negroes and other property which had been taken as plunder in different periods of the war.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rebut" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
