0 past simple and past participle of repudiate
1 to refuse to accept something or someone as true, good, or reasonable:
Silently, they repudiated humanity's lingering claims to special privilege inside a universe no longer ordered by theology.
This rule, long enshrined in civil law, was repudiated only in recent times.
No wonder the church ignored, or even repudiated, its immemorial condemnation of usurious finance.
Some investors had repudiated their obligations on the grounds that they were dealing with brokers acting as 'jobbers' or principals, not acting as agents.
Although such ideas have since been repudiated within archaeology, in disciplines further afield, the damage was done.
Soames writes that the proponents of logical positivism repudiated it.
He ' alternated or modulated between them depending on the immediate theological and cultural context of his writing, but never repudiated either one ' (p. 11).
Any concept of a ' ' real ' ' centred self is repudiated; the self is a significant absence approximated through simulations, the constructions of our spectators.
