Category:Repudiate

Re*pu"di*ate (-t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Repudiated (-`td); p. pr. & Vb. n. Repudiating.] Etym: [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.