0 the act of refusing to accept something or someone as true, good, or reasonable:
Her actions represent a repudiation of his leadership.
The election result was a clear repudiation of the mayor, who has suffered damage over recent scandals.
He saw his teenage son's flight to Canada as a clear repudiation of everything he holds dear.
In addition, authentication using public key encryption limits message repudiation: if a message is confirmed as authentic, the sender cannot easily deny sending it.
This reader was not left entirely convinced that the grain crises of the 1790s represented a 'repudiation' of the moral economy.
Moreover, it would not be difficult to show that a similar repudiation of survivor guilt has occurred in many other contexts and areas of inquiry.
Alarmingly, public opinion was evenly divided between support for and repudiation of this ' death squad ' for common criminals.
These repudiations resonated with the empiricist teachings of contemporary natural science.
