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repudiation

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re·pu·di·a·tion  (r-pyd-shn)
n.
1. The act of repudiating or the state of being repudiated.
2. The refusal, especially by public authorities, to acknowledge a contract or debt.

re·pudi·ation·ist n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.repudiationrepudiation - rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid; "Congressional repudiation of the treaty that the President had negotiated"
rejection - the speech act of rejecting
disclaimer - (law) a voluntary repudiation of a person's legal claim to something
disowning, disownment - refusal to acknowledge as one's own
2.repudiation - refusal to acknowledge or pay a debt or honor a contract (especially by public authorities); "the repudiation of the debt by the city"
refusal - the act of refusing
3.repudiation - the exposure of falseness or pretensions; "the debunking of religion has been too successful"
exposure - presentation to view in an open or public manner; "the exposure of his anger was shocking"

repudiation
noun rejection, reversal, abandonment, disowning, desertion, retraction, disavowal, renouncement, abjuration a public repudiation of the conference decision
Translations
repudiation [rɪˌpjuːdɪˈeɪʃən] N
1. (= denial) → rechazo m, negación f
2. (= refusal to recognize) [of debt, treaty] → negativa f a reconocer, desconocimiento m; [of attitude, values, wife, violence] → repudio m
repudiation
n (of person)Verstoßung f; (of authorship, debt, obligation)Nichtanerkennung f; (of accusation, remarks, charge)Zurückweisung f
repudiation [rɪˌpjuːdɪˈeɪʃn] n (frm) → ripudio
repudiation [rɪˌpjuːdɪˈeɪʃn] n (frm) → ripudio


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When I met him afterwards, for the first time for many years, I found to my astonishment that he, who had been a quite tolerably presentable young man, had actually managed by sheer scorn to alter his personal appearance until he had become a sort of walking repudiation of Oxford and all its traditions.
How at variance were they to her recent repudiation of him
But it must have been so--the sight of Rokoff there and the woman's later repudiation of me to the police make it impossible to place any other construction upon her acts.
 
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