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Webster 1913 Edition
Repudiate
Re-pu′di-ate
(rē̍-pū′dĭ-āt)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Repudiated
(-?ˊt?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.] 1.
To cast off; to disavow; to have nothing to do with; to renounce; to reject.
Servitude is to be
repudiated
with greater care. Prynne.
2.
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.
3.
To refuse to acknowledge or to pay; to disclaim;
as, the State has
. repudiated
its debtsWebster 1828 Edition
Repudiate
REPU'DIATE
,Verb.
T.
1.
To cast away; to reject; to discard.Atheists - repudiate all title to the kingdom of heaven.
2.
Appropriately, to put away; to divorce; as a wife.