rebuffal
nounEtymology Likely confused blend of rebuff + rebuttal, but possibly rebuff + -al
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A rebuttal, a statement contradicting another.
- Voltaire is much more critical of the Système de la Nature, adopting a position much closer to deism and spiritualism , fully aware that too strong a rebuffal of such views would not go down well with his royal correspondents.2003 12, Xavier Martin, Human Nature and the French Revolution: From the Enlightenment to the Napoleonic Code, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 21:
- That is the easiest ever rebuffal of a challenge I have ever done in my life.2020, 11:30 from the start, in No More Jockeys, season 2, episode 7, spoken by Tim Key:
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- This type of rebuffal operates almost as a kind of self-inhibiting mechanism, along similar lines to Bruce Dover's 'anticipatory compliance', which results in offering nothing unwanted in case one is sidelined.2022 December 8, Christiane Gerblinger, How Government Experts Self-Sabotage: The Language of the Rebuffed, ANU Press, →ISBN, page 71: