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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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