refutaln.

1599 R. Parsons Temperate Ward-word v. 68 (margin) Refutal of the fable.

1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence iv. 102 What refutal is this, when it can bee prooued that they so were.

a1662 P. Heylyn Aerius Redivivus (1670) 282 Neither this nor any other grave Refutal, would ever put them unto silence.

1764 Bailey's Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (new ed.) Refutal, a refutation.

1797 ‘Protoplastos’ Let. W. Pitt on Addit. Tax on Sugar 41 The wealth which they produce to the mother country will be a sufficient refutal to those who may have the temerity to affirm that the islands are not worth our keeping.

1816 O'Meara in Cent. Mag. (1900) Feb. 626/2 Such a work carries with it its own refutal.

1885 National Baptist 21 No. 13. 1 A living refutal of the lie that a good soldier must needs be depraved.

1946 ‘J. Tey’ Miss Pym Disposes i. 3 She sat down there and then and wrote reams of refutal.

1993 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 3 Mar. 46/3 They are counternarratives, reversals, recoveries, refutals of a familiar or prevalent tale.