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Rebuttals
- noun - (law) a pleading by the defendant in reply to a plaintiff's surrejoinder
- the speech act of refuting by offering a contrary contention or argument
Rebutters
- noun - (law) a pleading by the defendant in reply to a plaintiff's surrejoinder
- a debater who refutes or disproves by offering contrary evidence or argument
Rebutting
- verb - overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof; "The speaker refuted his opponent's arguments"
- prove to be false or incorrect
Recanting
- verb - formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure; "He retracted his earlier statements about his religion"; "She abjured her beliefs"
- Renounce
Recaption
- - The act of retaking, as of one who has escaped after arrest; reprisal; the retaking of one's own goods, chattels, wife, or children, without force or violence, from one who has taken them and who wrongfully detains them.
Recapture
- noun - a legal seizure by the government of profits beyond a fixed amount
- capture again; "recapture the escaped prisoner"
- experience anew; "She could not recapture that feeling of happiness"
- take back by force, as after a battle; "The military forces managed to recapture the fort"
- take up anew; "The author recaptures an old idea here"
- the act of taking something back
Recasting
- verb - cast again, in a different role; "He was recast as Iago"
- cast again; "The bell cracked and had to be recast"
- cast or model anew; "She had to recast her image to please the electorate in her home state"
- changing a particular word or phrase
Receptary
- - Generally or popularly admitted or received.
Reception
- noun - (American football) the act of catching a pass in football; "the tight end made a great reception on the 20 yard line"
- a formal party of people; as after a wedding
- quality or fidelity of a received broadcast
- the act of receiving
- the manner in which something is greeted; "she did not expect the cold reception she received from her superiors"
Receptive
- adjective - able to absorb liquid (not repellent); "the paper is ink-receptive"
- of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system; "sensory neurons"
- open to arguments, ideas, or change; "receptive to reason and the logic of facts"
- ready or willing to receive favorably; "receptive to the proposals"