REBUTTAL • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Rebuttal

... meaning of many words and lines in his book, and therefore was not the author"), he answered in an entirely new passage (pp.41-45). He observed later that "almost every writer on the subject" subsequently "adopted" this rebuttal.[22] Another crucial section (pp.45-49), in which Malone compares a modernized passage from "Rowley" with a passage from Chatterton's acknowledged poetry translated into Rowleian verse, was also new. This ...

— Cursory Observations on the Poems Attributed to Thomas Rowley (1782) • Edmond Malone