The phrase "in refutation of" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to introduce an argument or evidence that contradicts or disproves a previous statement or belief. Example: In refutation of the popular belief that all teenagers are lazy and unmotivated, recent studies have shown that the majority of high school students participate in extracurricular activities and maintain part-time jobs while maintaining good grades.
She attended the meeting of the Board of Estimate at which the vote was taken, and spoke in refutation of both slurs.
It remains one of the primary outlines of Eastern Orthodox doctrines as set forth in refutation of Roman Catholic and Protestant claims.
Motivated to reaffirm Jewish principles during severe persecution of the Jews in Spain, he wrote (1397 98) a treatise in "Refutation of the Principles of the Christians," a critique of 10 principles of Christianity.
You might ask why I haven't provided a long and detailed exposition of the various mechanisms by which diatoms and other microbial matter might float into the stratosphere in refutation of the Sheffield hypothesis.
This brings to my mind the problem of evidence in support or in refutation of the claim that service businesses keep their "more presentable" employees (as contingently defined) out front to deal with customers in person and their 'less presentable' employees in the back cleaning dishes and stocking shelves.
Moreover, in refutation of Creationism, we do not find fossils out of order as you might expect after a flood.
William was required to obtain an in-person refutation of the old charges by William of St. Barbara, who was now the Bishop of Durham.
Voltaire's radicalism, then and now, lies not in his refutation of optimism but in his refusal of belief.
A similar thought is already expressed in Republic I (353a e) when Socrates in his refutation of Thrasymachus employs the argument that the ability to fulfill one's own task (ergon) well constitutes the excellence of each object.
There are also similarities in Hippolytus, Refutation of All Heresies, where as in Theophilus there is no "genuine Trinitarian doctrine" and the Logos is identified as both the will of the Father and his voice (Marcovich, Hippolytus [PTT 25, 1986], 42-43).
The assault on Berkeley is staged by Moore most extensively in "The Refutation of Idealism" and picked up in an abbreviated form by Russell ten years later in the chapter on idealism in his The Problems of Philosophy, while the attack on Bradley, although foreshadowed in Russell's Problems, is spelled out rather lengthily (and a bit nastily) by Moore in "The Conception of Reality" from 1917 18.
