The Collaborative International Dictionary
Repudiate \Re*pu"di*ate\ (-?t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Repudiated (-?`t?d); p. pr. & vb. n. Repudiating.] [L. repudiatus, p. p. of repudiare to repudiate, reject, fr. repudium separation, divorce; pref. re- re- + pudere to be ashamed.]
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To cast off; to disavow; to have nothing to do with; to renounce; to reject.
Servitude is to be repudiated with greater care.
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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.
--Bolingbroke. To refuse to acknowledge or to pay; to disclaim; as, the State has repudiated its debts.
Wiktionary
1 disowned 2 rejected as untrue or unjust 3 divorced such as by a spouse v
(en-past of: repudiate)
WordNet
adj. any connection is denied [syn: disowned]
Usage examples of "repudiated".
The colonists repudiated the lightweights' claims, refused to submit to their rules, their laws, demanded justice in the courts or they would seek it in their own way.
He has repudiated any agreement made at the Butte, a meeting at which I was not present.
M'tani has repudiated any arrangement, agreement, accord, understanding, undertaking.
Although the article ostensibly presented the broad facts and documented the dispatch word for word, as Cross had written to him, Skinner’s editorial implied that Cunnington, well known for his imperious handling of foreign affairs, had totally repudiated not merely the treaty itself but the whole experience of the trading community, the Royal Navy and Army as well: “Lord Cunnington, who has never been east of Suez, is setting himself up as an expert on the value of Hong Kong.
He succeeded mainly in exciting the fury of his own clergy and laity, who repudiated his arrangements.
Your father has repudiated his alliance with Faction Harravay and has attempted to rescue your mother.
Ive publicly repudiated Faction Harravay, as your officer will bear witness.
The Americans moved in a more moderate and tentative manner towards the great achievement, but with them also a counter-revolution finally appeared in the rise of an influential class who, by openly defending slavery, repudiated the principles upon which the government was founded.
Garrison had previously favored colonization, but within the few weeks which elapsed before he joined Lundy, he repudiated all forms of colonization and advocated immediate and unconditional emancipation.
Garrison likewise repudiated every plan for gradual emancipation and proclaimed the duty of immediate and unconditional liberation of the slaves.
For a time Douglas was the most unpopular of political leaders and was apparently repudiated by his party.
Being aware of the fate of Governor Geary, Walker insisted on an explicit understanding with Buchanan that his policies should not be repudiated by the federal Administration.
That is, she was repudiated seventy-one years before the law of the Twelve Tables, which extended both the power and causes of repudiation.