REPUDIATION

repudiation, debunking

(noun) the exposure of falseness or pretensions; “the debunking of religion has been too successful”

repudiation

(noun) refusal to acknowledge or pay a debt or honor a contract (especially by public authorities); “the repudiation of the debt by the city”

repudiation, renunciation

(noun) rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid; “Congressional repudiation of the treaty that the President had negotiated”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

repudiation (countable and uncountable, plural repudiations)

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

Source: Wiktionary


Re*pu`di*a"tion (-*"shn), n. Etym: [Cf.F. répudiation, L. repudiatio.]

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

Re*pu`di*a"tion, n.

Definition: One who favors repudiation, especially of a public debt.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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ENDLESSLY

(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”


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