What does repudiation mean?

Definitions for repudiation
rɪˌpyu diˈeɪ ʃənre·pu·di·a·tion

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. repudiation, renunciationnoun

    rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid

    "Congressional repudiation of the treaty that the President had negotiated"

  2. repudiationnoun

    refusal to acknowledge or pay a debt or honor a contract (especially by public authorities)

    "the repudiation of the debt by the city"

  3. repudiation, debunkingnoun

    the exposure of falseness or pretensions

    "the debunking of religion has been too successful"

Wiktionary

  1. repudiationnoun

    The act of refusing to accept; the act of repudiating.

    The young man's repudiation of the church's doctrines caused a conflict between him and his religious parents.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Repudiationnoun

    Divorce; rejection.

    Etymology: repudiation, Fr. from repudiate.

    It was allowed by the Athenians, only in case of repudiation of a wife. John Arbuthnot, on Coins.

ChatGPT

  1. repudiation

    Repudiation generally refers to the rejection, denial, or refusal to accept a proposal or action. It can also refer to the rejection of an agreement, contract, or obligation, asserting that it is not valid or no longer applicable.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Repudiationnoun

    the act of repudiating, or the state of being repuddiated; as, the repudiation of a doctrine, a wife, a debt, etc

  2. Repudiationnoun

    one who favors repudiation, especially of a public debt

  3. Etymology: [Cf.F. rpudiation, L. repudiatio.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of repudiation in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of repudiation in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of repudiation in a Sentence

  1. Richard Lawhern:

    My instinct is to acknowledge incremental progress, and then get busy forcing the immediate recall and repudiation of the entire [CDC] guidelines document and all state legislation or regulation that incorporates it, we likely wont be able to avoid a rewrite effort for somekind of guideline, because doctors wont reenter pain management practice without a shield from sanctions.

  2. Victoria Coates:

    This is a shocking repudiation of President Biden's call for unity and reconciliation... and a clear violation of MBN's grant and my employment contracts.

  3. Kshama Sawant:

    The election results are a repudiation of the billionaire class, corporate real estate, and the establishment.

  4. Eugène Ionesco:

    I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a will to renewal. This is not the prerogative of the last decade only. All history is nothing but a succession of crises -- of rupture, repudiation and resistance. When there is no crisis, there is stagnation, petrifaction and death. All thought, all art is aggressive.

  5. James Taylor:

    The Supreme Decree issued by Peru last year is a complete repudiation of the debt cleverly wrapped in the cloth of a resolution.

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