To reject the truth or validity of; to deny.
The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution.
To refuse to have any relation to; to disown.
It was not enough just to shoot the Old Bolsheviks; Stalin had to have the show trials. He had to demonstrate publicly that these men of enormous energy and spirit were so utterly broken as to openly repudiate themselves and all they had fought for.
Repudiated by a husband, divorced.
Repudiated after betrothal or engagement.
Set aside, rejected.
A divorced wife.
First attested in 1543; from Latin repudiātus, the perfect passive participle of repudiō (“to cast off, reject”) (see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3)), from repudium (“rejection, repudiation, divorce”).
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