Repudiate Definition

rĭ-pyo͝odē-āt
repudiated, repudiates, repudiating
verb
repudiated, repudiates, repudiating
To refuse to have anything to do with; disown or cast off publicly.
Webster's New World
To refuse to accept or support; deny the validity or authority of (a belief, a treaty, etc.)
Webster's New World
To reject emphatically as unfounded, untrue, or unjust.
Repudiated the accusation.
American Heritage
To deny the truth of (a charge, etc.)
Webster's New World
To refuse to acknowledge or pay (a debt or obligation)
Webster's New World
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Origin of Repudiate

  • From Latin repudiō (“cast off, reject"), from repudium (“divorce")

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin repudiāre repudiāt- from repudium divorce

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Repudiate Sentence Examples

  • He endeavoured to repudiate her, and she fled to Rome, where she died in April 1213.

  • But they did not hesitate to declare that they must repudiate the mise.

  • British influences were still strong in the upper Mississippi valley and undoubtedly led Black Hawk and the chiefs of the Sauk and Fox confederacy to repudiate this agreement of 1804, and subsequently to enter into the conspiracy of Tecumseh and take part with the British in the war of 1812.

  • Why, in spite of repeated warnings, did he not repudiate them at the time?

  • When war was actually begun, Hastings officially recorded his previous resolution to have resigned, in order to repudiate responsibility for measures which he had always opposed.

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