Examples of repudiating

• Repudiating the rationalist systems, he stressed the essential values of a humanitarian, liberal approach to education.

• At that time, however, her husband had insisted on repudiating her.

• The judge's negative evaluation of his insincere verdict falls short of repudiating his action.

• What is remarkable about these proposals is that even as they are repudiating identity-based research, the discussion of desire itself relies heavily on the concept of identity.

• Rochester in effect 'creates its own kind' by repudiating established genres.

• Pennell was repudiating a name suggesting mere fun and ladylike manners in favor of one that announced the women's professional status.

• A figure obsessed with power, the jailer derides the prisoner, repudiating her piety in an exercise of strength over both her and the gates to heaven which he controls.

• Dramelyriquewill be human without repudiating 'fantasy', 'caprice' and 'mystery'.