Pylint: disable message for a given module using a .pylintrc file

From the pylint docs I see that it is possible to disable the message for a specific module (or even a block) by adding the appropriate pylint comment in the right place.

Is it possible to get the same functionality by adding to a file .pylintrc

instead? For example, is it possible to disable specific validation for my test directory without adding pylint comments to each file and use a file instead .pylintrc

?