"rebuffal" meaning in English

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          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "That is the easiest ever rebuffal of a challenge I have ever done in my life.",
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          "ref": "2022 December 8, Christiane Gerblinger, How Government Experts Self-Sabotage: The Language of the Rebuffed, ANU Press, →ISBN, page 71:",
          "text": "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.",
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  "word": "rebuffal"
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