REPUDIATED

Adjective

repudiated

disowned

rejected as untrue or unjust

divorced such as by a spouse

Verb

repudiated

simple past tense and past participle of repudiate

Source: Wiktionary


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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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