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/ripjˈudiˌeɪt/ Listen

verb

Repudiate v. t. (past & past part. repudiated; pres. part. repudiating)

To cast off; to disavow; to have nothing to do with; to renounce; to reject. "Servitude is to be repudiated with greater care."

To divorce, put away, or discard, as a wife, or a woman one has promised to marry. "His separation from Terentis, whom he repudiated not long afterward."

To refuse to acknowledge or to pay; to disclaim; as, the State has repudiated its debts.

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Etymology of 'Repudiate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Repudiate" Quotes from Famous Books

... to publicly repudiate help from abroad it would have, the Queen thought, the effect that "in Spain... the hopes of such ...

— The Crime Against Europe - A Possible Outcome of the War of 1914 • Roger Casement

... representatives found much to perplex them in these conditions, or that at the legations in Yedo, as well as among the peoples of Europe and America, an uneasy feeling grew up that Japan waited only for an opportunity to repudiate her ...

— A History of the Japanese People - From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era • Frank Brinkley and Dairoku Kikuchi

... or a humanity which, though the scene of Divine immanence, are not identical with God, it seems to us that such a view of creation as we have just propounded is inevitable; and unless this non-identity can be maintained—unless, that is to say, we definitely repudiate the idea of the "allness" of God—religion itself is reduced to ...

— Problems of Immanence - Studies Critical and Constructive • J. Warschauer

... sincere hope that by the production of the document itself, you may be able to repudiate so serious an accusation. You admit then that you have acted without the shelter of a ...

— The Strong Arm • Robert Barr

... does all this amount to? Does not the general government comprise the same people who make up the State governments? May not these Europeans ask us how long it may be before the national councils will repudiate public obligations? ...

— The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster • Daniel Webster

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