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repudiated


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Repudiate  \Re*pu"di*ate\  (-?t),  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Repudiated} 
  (-?`t?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  debts. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  repudiated 
  adj  :  any  connection  is  denied  [syn:  {disowned}] 




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