† repudiateadj.n.

Forms: 1500s repudyate, 1500s–1700s repudiat, 1500s–1700s repudiate.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin repudiātus, repudiāre.

Etymology: < classical Latin repudiātus, past participle of repudiāre repudiate v. Compare repudiate v. With use as noun compare post-classical Latin repudiata divorced woman (early 3rd cent. in Tertullian), use as noun of feminine of classical Latin repudiātus.

Obsolete.

A. adj. Frequently as past participle.

1. Of a woman.

a. Rejected or dismissed by her husband; divorced.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > divorce or dissolution > [adjective] > of woman

repudiate1543

repudious1558

repudiated1610

1543 ( Chron. J. Hardyng (1812) 160 (MED) Ethelfrides wyfe with chylde farre gone, Violently exiled and repudiate..went..To kyng Cadwan..Whom he receyued.

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Matt. xix. 94 The wyfe oughte not to be repudiate and cast of.

1607 M. Drayton Legend Cromwel 37 His former wife being repudiate.

1640 J. Yorke Union of Honour 136 He married Isabel,..being repudiate wife of King John.

1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 175 in Justice Vindicated Nor his gossip, nor a Vestal nun, nor one repudiate, let no Christian man marry.

b. Rejected after betrothal or engagement.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > betrothal > [adjective] > rejected after betrothal

repudiate1569

1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 879 Margaret which was affied to Charles the seuenth French king & by him repudiate.

1627 M. Drayton Miseries Queene Margarite in Battaile Agincourt 73 That great Earle..tooke in high disdayne, To haue his Daughter so repudiate.

c. In extended use, of a river. rare.

ΚΠ

a1640 in T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) 238 All discontent, and thus repudiate, Unto the southern coast her course doth [Tamar] take.

2. gen. Rejected, set aside.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > statement > refusal > [adjective] > rejecting > rejected

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unaccepted1612

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reject1955

1543 ( Chron. J. Hardyng (1812) 315 (MED) From Kyllingworth..By nyght he was caryed..From wyfe and chylde forsake and repudyate.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. ix^v Edmond was..for his deformitee repudiat and put by from the croune royall.

a1600 (?c1535) tr. H. Boece Hist. Scotl. (Mar Lodge) (1946) vii. ix. 404 Gif it [sc. occasion] be now throw ȝoure sleuth repudiat, it sall in vane eftirwart be requirit.

1603 M. Drayton Barrons Wars i. xxx. 11 Now disabled of all soueraigne state..To be reiected, and repudiate.

1771 Memorial for A. Gordon 18 The decision is concerning the import and effect of a particular clause in a taillie itself, and the consequence of that taillie being repudiate by the inst[it]ute.

B. n.

A person who has been rejected, disowned, or condemned; spec. a divorced wife; (also) a condemned man.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > divorce or dissolution > [noun] > divorced person > woman

ex-wifea1398

repudiate1543

DWF1982

1543 ( Chron. J. Hardyng (1812) 318 Euen without the castell gate, He stoode condempned as a repudiate.

1623 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. (ed. 2) ix. xxiv. 1166/1 Dominions..which they claimed by our Elinor, the repudiate of the King of France.

1646 B. Ryves Mercurius Rusticus (new ed.) 32 Those two fair tombes of Katherine Queen Dowager of Spain, the Repudiate of King H. 8. and Mary albeit Queen of Scotts.

1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 321 Zaynib (the repudiate of Ben-Harkah) was his fourth and last Wife.

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II A Repudiate, a divorced woman, one put away.]

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

repudiatev.

Brit.

/rᵻˈpjuːdɪeɪt/, U.S.

/rəˈpjudiˌeɪt/,

/riˈpjudiˌeɪt/

Forms: 1500s–1600s repudiat, 1500s– repudiate; also Scottish pre-1700 repudiat (past tense).

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin repudiāt-, repudiāre.

Etymology: < classical Latin repudiāt-, past participial stem (see -ate suffix³) of repudiāre to divorce, reject, to refuse to accept, to decline < repudium repudy n. Compare earlier repudy v. and foreign-language forms cited at that entry. Compare also slightly earlier repudiation n.

a. transitive. To cast off, disown (a person or thing previously claimed as one's own or associated with oneself).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > statement > refusal > [verb (transitive)] > reject or cast off a person

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replya1500

repudiate1534

to fling off1587

reprobate1747

veto1839

to tie a can to (or on)1926

to give (a person) the elbow1938

wipe1941

1534 G. Joye tr. U. Zwingli Dauids Psalter f. 123 He turned himselfe awaye frome the tentis of Ioseph, and repudiated y^e tribe of Ephraim.

1586 G. Whetstone Eng. Myrror ii. ii. 117 This tiraunt..repudiated his owne mother.

1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 316 Other Writers; who being Dorians born, repudiated their vernacular Idiom for that of the Athenians.

1780 T. Francklin tr. Lucian Wks. I. 461 At one time alone you brought your children into the world, once you educated them, once, and once only, you have the power of repudiating them, provided it be done justly.

1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xvi. 205 He felt it necessary..to repudiate and denounce his father.

1855 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Philip II of Spain I. i. iii. 76 England, after repudiating her heresies, was received into the fold of the Roman Catholic Church.

1873 Daily News 12 Sept. 4/4 M. de Mahy..called upon the Ministers to repudiate the document.

1966 R. Stevenson in ‘H. MacDiarmid’ Company I've Kept ii. 46 I wish he would say ‘mea culpa’ to what he has written on Shostakovitch, to repudiate and disavow it.

1997 Oxf. Amer. Jan.–Feb. 9/2 The greatest writer among them, Robert Penn Warren, later repudiated much of the essay on race he wrote when he was twenty-five.

b. transitive. Of a man: to divorce, dismiss, or reject (a wife or bride).

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > divorce or dissolution > dissolve (a marriage) [verb (transitive)] > divorce (a spouse) > divorce a wife

repudy1477

refuse?1530

repudiatec1540

dismiss1608

unmarry1645

c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. ii. xiv. f. 19/1 He repudiat his nobil quene..and gart his vicious harlotis deforce hir.

1545 G. Joye Expos. Daniel (xi.) f. 185 This Antiochus repudiated his own wyfe called Laodice.

1597 T. Beard Theatre Gods Iudgements ii. xxx. 354 Hugh Spencer..was he that first persuaded the king to forsake and repudiate the Queene his wife.

a1600 (?c1535) tr. H. Boece Hist. Scotl. (Mar Lodge) (1946) 78 He repudiat the quene Agasia.

1663 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures (new ed.) lx. 245 He had repudiated a daughter of his, which he had married three years before.

a1751 Visct. Bolingbroke Wks. (1754) I. 112 His separation from Terentia, whom he repudiated not long afterwards, was perhaps an affliction to him at this time.

1850 W. Irving Mahomet (1853) vii. 37 Abu Labab and his wife..compelled their son, Otha, to repudiate his wife.

1866 J. G. Edgar Runnymede xxxv. 202 The pope forced her husband to repudiate her.

1921 E. Westermarck Hist. Human Marriage I. 155 Among most of the Ewhe tribes the absence of the primitiae is ipso facto a reason for repudiating a bride.

1991 A. Hourani Hist. Arab Peoples ii. vii. 121 The marriage contract could provide some safeguard against this, if it stipulated that part of the dowry..should be paid by the husband only if and when he repudiated his wife.

a. transitive. To refuse to accept or be associated with; to reject (something offered; a theory, proposal, etc.). Also occasionally with person as object.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > disapprove of [verb (transitive)] > disapprove and reject

disallow?1387

reproach1534

repudiate1548

disclaim1565

disallowa1571

disapprove1644

disown1650

no-ball1862

red-line1958

the mind > language > statement > refusal > [verb (transitive)] > reject

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to put awaya1387

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to put backa1500

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devow1610

retorta1616

disclaimc1626

noforsootha1644

respuate1657

reluctate1668

negative1778

no-ball1862

basket1867

to set one's foot down1873

not to have any (of it, that, this)1895

to put down1944

eighty-six1959

neg1987

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. i^v The damosell dyd not alonly disagre and repudiate that matrimony, but abhorred..his..desyre.

1674 Govt. Tongue 100 O let not those that have repudiated the more inviting sins, show themselves philtr'd and bewitch'd by this.

1779 Honest Sentiments Eng. Officer on Army Great Brit. iii. i. 38 They..either urge him to form some capricious system, or to adopt a worse than merely foolish one of their own devising, repudiating that plain one..which reason approves, and the real officer contends for.

1837 C. Lofft Self-formation II. 63 Gladly would we have repudiated the property..so heavily bestowed upon us.

1862 H. Beveridge Comprehensive Hist. India II. vi. viii. 802 If they repudiated the empire placed within their reach, some other power would certainly seize it.

1879 M. Arnold Mixed Ess. 32 Not only did the whole repudiate the physician, but also those who were sick.

1911 Catholic Encycl. XII. 267/1 It is without doubt true that St. Gregory repudiated in strong terms the title of universal bishop, and relates that St. Leo rejected it when it was offered him by the fathers of Chalcedon.

1961 K. Tynan Curtains i. 91 But what of bad drama, the kind which repudiates art and scoffs at depth?

2002 S. J. Gould Struct. Evolutionary Theory vii. 538 In 1963, Mayr repudiated all three major classes of nonadaptation that he had defended in 1942: polymorphisms, clines, and much geographic variation in general.

b. transitive. To deny the truth or validity of (a charge, etc.); to reject as unfounded or inapplicable.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > statement > repudiation or refusal to acknowledge > repudiate or refuse to acknowledge [verb (transitive)] > as being unfounded or inapplicable

repudiate1722

1722 S. Fancourt Enthusiasm Retorted 26 Were we to appeal unto those Gentlemen themselves, they would, I am confident, with the utmost Indignation, repudiate the Charge.

1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. i. 3 The old man shook his head, gently repudiating the imputation.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. §6. 525 Politically it repudiated the taunt of revolutionary aims.

1914 Bulletin (Sydney) 27 Aug. 24/1 Gentlemen of a wowserish cast of whiskers are repudiating football's claim to be considered a desirable sport.

1925 L. Trotsky in Times 30 Jan. 11/4 I repudiate emphatically the assumption that the formula of ‘permanent revolution’ was used by me as denoting lack of care in handling the peasant question.

1990 Reader's Digest June 127/2 Italy's highest appellate court..repudiated the lower court's finding that the Mafia had ‘a unitary and vertical structure’.

c. transitive. To condemn (an idea or opinion, the behaviour of another, etc.); to reject with abhorrence.

ΚΠ

1840 J. F. W. Herschel in Q. Rev. June 295 A doctrine which..we must repudiate.

1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Wks. II. 25/2 You have acknowledged his eloquence, while you..repudiated his morals.

1865 R. W. Dale Jewish Temple viii. 85 I repudiate the dreams of Pantheism.

1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience vi. 128 Martin Luther..repudiated priestly absolution for sin.

1999 Independent on Sunday 21 Nov. (Culture section) 10/1 He sought to repudiate what he saw as the divisive value system of middle-class ‘heterosoc’ England.

a. transitive. To reject as unauthorized; to refuse to recognize or obey.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > statement > repudiation or refusal to acknowledge > repudiate or refuse to acknowledge [verb (transitive)]

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unowna1657

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refute1886

slam1973

the mind > language > statement > refusal > [verb (transitive)] > reject as unauthorized

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to throw off1551

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untruss1608

1560 J. Knox Answer Great Nomber Blasphemous Cauillations 209 They haue repudiated, the Lawe of the Lord of hostes, and the worde of the holie one of Israel.

1583 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (ed. 4) I. 273/1 Repudiating and disanulling the former election of Walter the Monke vpon iust causes.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 42 He hath obtained with some to repudiate the books of Moses.

1696 R. Bentley Of Revel. & Messias 4 Repudiating at once the whole authority of Revelation.

1726 W. Gordon Hist. Family Gordon I. 144 Sir James Melvil was his Contemporary, and knew him exactly; and so great Credit is to be given to his Testimony, that it alone is sufficient to repudiate Buchanan's Authority.

1837 C. Lofft Self-formation II. 174 I had repudiated the second hand faculty as vain..and delusive.

1852 H. Rogers Eclipse of Faith 74 You would repudiate at once his claims,..to be your infallible guide.

1883 J. A. Froude Short Stud. 4th Ser. v. 350 They were ready..to repudiate the authority of the Pope.

1947 T. Veblen in C. A. Madison Critics & Crusaders 460 Left-wing factions..repudiated the rulings of the national executive committee, issued their own periodicals, and agitated for full co-operation.

1995 W. E. May Marriage 110 He claims that Vatican Council II repudiated the teaching of Pius XII and instead adopted the view of Herbert Doms which had been censured by that pontiff.

b. transitive. To refuse to discharge or acknowledge (a debt or other obligation); spec. (of a state) to disown (a public debt). Also intransitive.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > refuse to acknowledge obligation [verb (transitive)]

repudiate1837

society > trade and finance > payment > payment of debt > pay debt [verb (intransitive)] > refuse to acknowledge or pay public debt

repudiate1837

society > trade and finance > payment > payment of debt > pay debt [verb (transitive)] > refuse to acknowledge or pay public debt

repudiate1837

1837 C. Lofft Self-formation I. 249 If a man..repudiate the care of his wife or children, villain is a word not villainous enough for him.

1843 S. Smith Wks. (1859) II. 331/2 I am accused of applying the epithet repudiation to States which have not repudiated.

1844 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Aug. 133/1 The first of which [States] wrongly, without doubt,..directly repudiated the debt thus incurred.

1862 J. Spence Amer. 74 In each of the States that has repudiated there was a large majority of men thoroughly honourable in their private affairs.

1863 H. Spencer Ess. 2nd Ser. 228 Sir Robert Inglis..hinted that the national debt would not improbably be repudiated if the proposed measure became law.

1919 A. Bullard Russ. Pendulum xiii. 96 For a while they thought they could bluff the nations of the Entente by threatening to repudiate the national debt.

1964 L. A. Mills Southeast Asia x. 251 In 1956 the Indonesian government abrogated the loose political union with Holland, and at the same time repudiated the debt it had assumed.

2008 Herald News (Passaic County, New Jersey) (Nexis) 9 Mar. b12 Repudiating $27 billion of contract debt is good for New Jersey. That repudiation would reduce our debt from $30 billion to $3 billion.

Derivatives

reˈpudiated adj.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > statement > refusal > [adjective] > rejecting > rejected

refusea1413

reproveda1425

offcastc1450

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rejected1567

unpicked1568

unelecteda1586

disavowed1591

discarded1593

disclaimed1595

repudiated1610

unaccepted1612

refused1790

reject1955

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > divorce or dissolution > [adjective] > of woman

repudiate1543

repudious1558

repudiated1610

1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 368 Iohn..passed over his repudiated wife with the Honor of Glocester, to Geffrey Mandevil,..for 20000 markes, who thus over-marrying himselfe was greatly impoverished.

1788 H. Walpole Reminiscences (1924) ii. 24 Eldest daughter..of the repudiated wife of the earl of Macclesfield.

1843 S. Smith Wks. (1859) II. 329/1 This swamp we gained..by the repudiated loan of 1828.

1981 Harvard Law Rev. 95 59 (note) Although [the Andriano case] did involve a repudiated claim that alienage laws protected the plaintiff, it involved no constitutional issue.

reˈpudiating n. and adj.

ΚΠ

1609 T. Cooper Churches Deliv. i. 48 The repudiating of the Queene for so small a matter, must needs heare odious in the eares of the subiects.

1739 Answers for Mrs. B. Makdougall of Makerstoun & G. Makdougall 14 All the Rules of Reason direct to the repudiating of the lesser Right, which if taken up would be inconsistent with the fuller.

1820 Investigator 1 165 The Jewish law of divorce..provided, that the repudiating husband was never afterwards to reclaim her.

1866 Latter-Day Saints Millennial Star 28 187 The first thing..to present itself as worthy of their attention, is the repudiating of the National Debt.

1926 Times 5 Mar. 14/6 The clear issue before the unions..is..the honouring or repudiating of an agreement.

2001 Jrnl. Legal Stud. 30 452 The rule..suggests that the repudiating party be inflicted with reliance liability.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	repudiate
释义	† repudiateadj.n. Forms: 1500s repudyate, 1500s–1700s repudiat, 1500s–1700s repudiate. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin repudiātus, repudiāre. Etymology: < classical Latin repudiātus, past participle of repudiāre repudiate v. Compare repudiate v. With use as noun compare post-classical Latin repudiata divorced woman (early 3rd cent. in Tertullian), use as noun of feminine of classical Latin repudiātus. Obsolete. A. adj. Frequently as past participle. 1. Of a woman. a. Rejected or dismissed by her husband; divorced. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > divorce or dissolution > [adjective] > of woman repudiate1543 repudious1558 repudiated1610 1543 ( Chron. J. Hardyng (1812) 160 (MED) Ethelfrides wyfe with chylde farre gone, Violently exiled and repudiate..went..To kyng Cadwan..Whom he receyued. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Matt. xix. 94 The wyfe oughte not to be repudiate and cast of. 1607 M. Drayton Legend Cromwel 37 His former wife being repudiate. 1640 J. Yorke Union of Honour 136 He married Isabel,..being repudiate wife of King John. 1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 175 in Justice Vindicated Nor his gossip, nor a Vestal nun, nor one repudiate, let no Christian man marry. b. Rejected after betrothal or engagement. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > betrothal > [adjective] > rejected after betrothal repudiate1569 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 879 Margaret which was affied to Charles the seuenth French king & by him repudiate. 1627 M. Drayton Miseries Queene Margarite in Battaile Agincourt 73 That great Earle..tooke in high disdayne, To haue his Daughter so repudiate. c. In extended use, of a river. rare. ΚΠ a1640 in T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) 238 All discontent, and thus repudiate, Unto the southern coast her course doth [Tamar] take. 2. gen. Rejected, set aside. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > refusal > [adjective] > rejecting > rejected refusea1413 reproveda1425 offcastc1450 disallowed1539 repudiate1543 rejected1567 unpicked1568 unelecteda1586 disavowed1591 discarded1593 disclaimed1595 repudiated1610 unaccepted1612 refused1790 reject1955 1543 ( Chron. J. Hardyng (1812) 315 (MED) From Kyllingworth..By nyght he was caryed..From wyfe and chylde forsake and repudyate. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. ix^v Edmond was..for his deformitee repudiat and put by from the croune royall. a1600 (?c1535) tr. H. Boece Hist. Scotl. (Mar Lodge) (1946) vii. ix. 404 Gif it [sc. occasion] be now throw ȝoure sleuth repudiat, it sall in vane eftirwart be requirit. 1603 M. Drayton Barrons Wars i. xxx. 11 Now disabled of all soueraigne state..To be reiected, and repudiate. 1771 Memorial for A. Gordon 18 The decision is concerning the import and effect of a particular clause in a taillie itself, and the consequence of that taillie being repudiate by the inst[it]ute. B. n. A person who has been rejected, disowned, or condemned; spec. a divorced wife; (also) a condemned man. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > divorce or dissolution > [noun] > divorced person > woman ex-wifea1398 repudiate1543 DWF1982 1543 ( Chron. J. Hardyng (1812) 318 Euen without the castell gate, He stoode condempned as a repudiate. 1623 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. (ed. 2) ix. xxiv. 1166/1 Dominions..which they claimed by our Elinor, the repudiate of the King of France. 1646 B. Ryves Mercurius Rusticus (new ed.) 32 Those two fair tombes of Katherine Queen Dowager of Spain, the Repudiate of King H. 8. and Mary albeit Queen of Scotts. 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 321 Zaynib (the repudiate of Ben-Harkah) was his fourth and last Wife. 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II A Repudiate, a divorced woman, one put away.] This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). repudiatev. Brit. /rᵻˈpjuːdɪeɪt/, U.S. /rəˈpjudiˌeɪt/, /riˈpjudiˌeɪt/ Forms: 1500s–1600s repudiat, 1500s– repudiate; also Scottish pre-1700 repudiat (past tense). Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin repudiāt-, repudiāre. Etymology: < classical Latin repudiāt-, past participial stem (see -ate suffix³) of repudiāre to divorce, reject, to refuse to accept, to decline < repudium repudy n. Compare earlier repudy v. and foreign-language forms cited at that entry. Compare also slightly earlier repudiation n. 1. a. transitive. To cast off, disown (a person or thing previously claimed as one's own or associated with oneself). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > refusal > [verb (transitive)] > reject or cast off a person refusec1390 wavescha1400 denyc1400 rejectc1450 replya1500 repudiate1534 to fling off1587 reprobate1747 veto1839 to tie a can to (or on)1926 to give (a person) the elbow1938 wipe1941 1534 G. Joye tr. U. Zwingli Dauids Psalter f. 123 He turned himselfe awaye frome the tentis of Ioseph, and repudiated y^e tribe of Ephraim. 1586 G. Whetstone Eng. Myrror ii. ii. 117 This tiraunt..repudiated his owne mother. 1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 316 Other Writers; who being Dorians born, repudiated their vernacular Idiom for that of the Athenians. 1780 T. Francklin tr. Lucian Wks. I. 461 At one time alone you brought your children into the world, once you educated them, once, and once only, you have the power of repudiating them, provided it be done justly. 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xvi. 205 He felt it necessary..to repudiate and denounce his father. 1855 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Philip II of Spain I. i. iii. 76 England, after repudiating her heresies, was received into the fold of the Roman Catholic Church. 1873 Daily News 12 Sept. 4/4 M. de Mahy..called upon the Ministers to repudiate the document. 1966 R. Stevenson in ‘H. MacDiarmid’ Company I've Kept ii. 46 I wish he would say ‘mea culpa’ to what he has written on Shostakovitch, to repudiate and disavow it. 1997 Oxf. Amer. Jan.–Feb. 9/2 The greatest writer among them, Robert Penn Warren, later repudiated much of the essay on race he wrote when he was twenty-five. b. transitive. Of a man: to divorce, dismiss, or reject (a wife or bride). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > divorce or dissolution > dissolve (a marriage) [verb (transitive)] > divorce (a spouse) > divorce a wife repudy1477 refuse?1530 repudiatec1540 dismiss1608 unmarry1645 c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. ii. xiv. f. 19/1 He repudiat his nobil quene..and gart his vicious harlotis deforce hir. 1545 G. Joye Expos. Daniel (xi.) f. 185 This Antiochus repudiated his own wyfe called Laodice. 1597 T. Beard Theatre Gods Iudgements ii. xxx. 354 Hugh Spencer..was he that first persuaded the king to forsake and repudiate the Queene his wife. a1600 (?c1535) tr. H. Boece Hist. Scotl. (Mar Lodge) (1946) 78 He repudiat the quene Agasia. 1663 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures (new ed.) lx. 245 He had repudiated a daughter of his, which he had married three years before. a1751 Visct. Bolingbroke Wks. (1754) I. 112 His separation from Terentia, whom he repudiated not long afterwards, was perhaps an affliction to him at this time. 1850 W. Irving Mahomet (1853) vii. 37 Abu Labab and his wife..compelled their son, Otha, to repudiate his wife. 1866 J. G. Edgar Runnymede xxxv. 202 The pope forced her husband to repudiate her. 1921 E. Westermarck Hist. Human Marriage I. 155 Among most of the Ewhe tribes the absence of the primitiae is ipso facto a reason for repudiating a bride. 1991 A. Hourani Hist. Arab Peoples ii. vii. 121 The marriage contract could provide some safeguard against this, if it stipulated that part of the dowry..should be paid by the husband only if and when he repudiated his wife. 2. a. transitive. To refuse to accept or be associated with; to reject (something offered; a theory, proposal, etc.). Also occasionally with person as object. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > disapprove of [verb (transitive)] > disapprove and reject disallow?1387 reproach1534 repudiate1548 disclaim1565 disallowa1571 disapprove1644 disown1650 no-ball1862 red-line1958 the mind > language > statement > refusal > [verb (transitive)] > reject awarpc1000 forwerpeOE warpc1000 nillOE warnc1300 reprovec1350 to put abacka1382 to throw awaya1382 repugnc1384 to put awaya1387 waivec1386 forshoota1400 disavowc1400 defyc1405 disprovec1430 repelc1443 flemea1450 to put backa1500 reject?1504 refutea1513 repulse1533 refel1548 repudiate1548 disallowa1555 project?1567 expel1575 discard1578 overrule1578 forsay1579 check1601 decard1605 dismiss1608 reprobate1609 devow1610 retorta1616 disclaimc1626 noforsootha1644 respuate1657 reluctate1668 negative1778 no-ball1862 basket1867 to set one's foot down1873 not to have any (of it, that, this)1895 to put down1944 eighty-six1959 neg1987 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. i^v The damosell dyd not alonly disagre and repudiate that matrimony, but abhorred..his..desyre. 1674 Govt. Tongue 100 O let not those that have repudiated the more inviting sins, show themselves philtr'd and bewitch'd by this. 1779 Honest Sentiments Eng. Officer on Army Great Brit. iii. i. 38 They..either urge him to form some capricious system, or to adopt a worse than merely foolish one of their own devising, repudiating that plain one..which reason approves, and the real officer contends for. 1837 C. Lofft Self-formation II. 63 Gladly would we have repudiated the property..so heavily bestowed upon us. 1862 H. Beveridge Comprehensive Hist. India II. vi. viii. 802 If they repudiated the empire placed within their reach, some other power would certainly seize it. 1879 M. Arnold Mixed Ess. 32 Not only did the whole repudiate the physician, but also those who were sick. 1911 Catholic Encycl. XII. 267/1 It is without doubt true that St. Gregory repudiated in strong terms the title of universal bishop, and relates that St. Leo rejected it when it was offered him by the fathers of Chalcedon. 1961 K. Tynan Curtains i. 91 But what of bad drama, the kind which repudiates art and scoffs at depth? 2002 S. J. Gould Struct. Evolutionary Theory vii. 538 In 1963, Mayr repudiated all three major classes of nonadaptation that he had defended in 1942: polymorphisms, clines, and much geographic variation in general. b. transitive. To deny the truth or validity of (a charge, etc.); to reject as unfounded or inapplicable. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > repudiation or refusal to acknowledge > repudiate or refuse to acknowledge [verb (transitive)] > as being unfounded or inapplicable repudiate1722 1722 S. Fancourt Enthusiasm Retorted 26 Were we to appeal unto those Gentlemen themselves, they would, I am confident, with the utmost Indignation, repudiate the Charge. 1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. i. 3 The old man shook his head, gently repudiating the imputation. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. §6. 525 Politically it repudiated the taunt of revolutionary aims. 1914 Bulletin (Sydney) 27 Aug. 24/1 Gentlemen of a wowserish cast of whiskers are repudiating football's claim to be considered a desirable sport. 1925 L. Trotsky in Times 30 Jan. 11/4 I repudiate emphatically the assumption that the formula of ‘permanent revolution’ was used by me as denoting lack of care in handling the peasant question. 1990 Reader's Digest June 127/2 Italy's highest appellate court..repudiated the lower court's finding that the Mafia had ‘a unitary and vertical structure’. c. transitive. To condemn (an idea or opinion, the behaviour of another, etc.); to reject with abhorrence. ΚΠ 1840 J. F. W. Herschel in Q. Rev. June 295 A doctrine which..we must repudiate. 1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Wks. II. 25/2 You have acknowledged his eloquence, while you..repudiated his morals. 1865 R. W. Dale Jewish Temple viii. 85 I repudiate the dreams of Pantheism. 1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience vi. 128 Martin Luther..repudiated priestly absolution for sin. 1999 Independent on Sunday 21 Nov. (Culture section) 10/1 He sought to repudiate what he saw as the divisive value system of middle-class ‘heterosoc’ England. 3. a. transitive. To reject as unauthorized; to refuse to recognize or obey. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > repudiation or refusal to acknowledge > repudiate or refuse to acknowledge [verb (transitive)] dissolve1382 denyc1384 renaya1450 forswearc1475 repudy1477 disallowa1513 abrenounce1537 repudiate1560 have1579 disclaim1596 renounce1617 abrenunciate1618 unowna1657 disown1666 refute1886 slam1973 the mind > language > statement > refusal > [verb (transitive)] > reject as unauthorized repudy1477 to throw off1551 repudiate1560 untruss1608 1560 J. Knox Answer Great Nomber Blasphemous Cauillations 209 They haue repudiated, the Lawe of the Lord of hostes, and the worde of the holie one of Israel. 1583 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (ed. 4) I. 273/1 Repudiating and disanulling the former election of Walter the Monke vpon iust causes. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 42 He hath obtained with some to repudiate the books of Moses. View more context for this quotation 1696 R. Bentley Of Revel. & Messias 4 Repudiating at once the whole authority of Revelation. 1726 W. Gordon Hist. Family Gordon I. 144 Sir James Melvil was his Contemporary, and knew him exactly; and so great Credit is to be given to his Testimony, that it alone is sufficient to repudiate Buchanan's Authority. 1837 C. Lofft Self-formation II. 174 I had repudiated the second hand faculty as vain..and delusive. 1852 H. Rogers Eclipse of Faith 74 You would repudiate at once his claims,..to be your infallible guide. 1883 J. A. Froude Short Stud. 4th Ser. v. 350 They were ready..to repudiate the authority of the Pope. 1947 T. Veblen in C. A. Madison Critics & Crusaders 460 Left-wing factions..repudiated the rulings of the national executive committee, issued their own periodicals, and agitated for full co-operation. 1995 W. E. May Marriage 110 He claims that Vatican Council II repudiated the teaching of Pius XII and instead adopted the view of Herbert Doms which had been censured by that pontiff. b. transitive. To refuse to discharge or acknowledge (a debt or other obligation); spec. (of a state) to disown (a public debt). Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > refuse to acknowledge obligation [verb (transitive)] repudiate1837 society > trade and finance > payment > payment of debt > pay debt [verb (intransitive)] > refuse to acknowledge or pay public debt repudiate1837 society > trade and finance > payment > payment of debt > pay debt [verb (transitive)] > refuse to acknowledge or pay public debt repudiate1837 1837 C. Lofft Self-formation I. 249 If a man..repudiate the care of his wife or children, villain is a word not villainous enough for him. 1843 S. Smith Wks. (1859) II. 331/2 I am accused of applying the epithet repudiation to States which have not repudiated. 1844 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Aug. 133/1 The first of which [States] wrongly, without doubt,..directly repudiated the debt thus incurred. 1862 J. Spence Amer. 74 In each of the States that has repudiated there was a large majority of men thoroughly honourable in their private affairs. 1863 H. Spencer Ess. 2nd Ser. 228 Sir Robert Inglis..hinted that the national debt would not improbably be repudiated if the proposed measure became law. 1919 A. Bullard Russ. Pendulum xiii. 96 For a while they thought they could bluff the nations of the Entente by threatening to repudiate the national debt. 1964 L. A. Mills Southeast Asia x. 251 In 1956 the Indonesian government abrogated the loose political union with Holland, and at the same time repudiated the debt it had assumed. 2008 Herald News (Passaic County, New Jersey) (Nexis) 9 Mar. b12 Repudiating $27 billion of contract debt is good for New Jersey. That repudiation would reduce our debt from $30 billion to $3 billion. Derivatives reˈpudiated adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > refusal > [adjective] > rejecting > rejected refusea1413 reproveda1425 offcastc1450 disallowed1539 repudiate1543 rejected1567 unpicked1568 unelecteda1586 disavowed1591 discarded1593 disclaimed1595 repudiated1610 unaccepted1612 refused1790 reject1955 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > divorce or dissolution > [adjective] > of woman repudiate1543 repudious1558 repudiated1610 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 368 Iohn..passed over his repudiated wife with the Honor of Glocester, to Geffrey Mandevil,..for 20000 markes, who thus over-marrying himselfe was greatly impoverished. 1788 H. Walpole Reminiscences (1924) ii. 24 Eldest daughter..of the repudiated wife of the earl of Macclesfield. 1843 S. Smith Wks. (1859) II. 329/1 This swamp we gained..by the repudiated loan of 1828. 1981 Harvard Law Rev. 95 59 (note) Although [the Andriano case] did involve a repudiated claim that alienage laws protected the plaintiff, it involved no constitutional issue. reˈpudiating n. and adj. ΚΠ 1609 T. Cooper Churches Deliv. i. 48 The repudiating of the Queene for so small a matter, must needs heare odious in the eares of the subiects. 1739 Answers for Mrs. B. Makdougall of Makerstoun & G. Makdougall 14 All the Rules of Reason direct to the repudiating of the lesser Right, which if taken up would be inconsistent with the fuller. 1820 Investigator 1 165 The Jewish law of divorce..provided, that the repudiating husband was never afterwards to reclaim her. 1866 Latter-Day Saints Millennial Star 28 187 The first thing..to present itself as worthy of their attention, is the repudiating of the National Debt. 1926 Times 5 Mar. 14/6 The clear issue before the unions..is..the honouring or repudiating of an agreement. 2001 Jrnl. Legal Stud. 30 452 The rule..suggests that the repudiating party be inflicted with reliance liability. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1543v.1534
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