NADCI WORD OF THE WEEK - REPUDIATE

WORD: REPUDIATE [repudiate]

PART OF SPEECH: transitive Verb

• 3rd person present: repudiates;
• past tense: repudiated;
• past participle: repudiated;
• gerund or present participle: repudiating.

PRONUNCIATION: /rɪˈpjuːdieɪt/ (ri-ˈpyü-dē-ˌāt)

SYLLABLES: (4) re·pu·di·ate

MEANING:

- To reject the truth or validity of; to deny.

- To refuse to have anything to do with; to disown.

To refuse to acknowledge or pay or honor (a debt).

- (In the past or in non-Christian religions) To divorce or separate formally from (a woman)

- To refuse to accept; especially : to reject as unauthorized or as having no binding force

SENTENCE EXAMPLES:

- the minister repudiated allegations of human rights abuses.

- Socialism had been repudiated at the polls.

- (law) Borrowers have begun repudiating their debt obligations.

- (law) The buyer is entitled to repudiate the contract within a reasonable period of time

- Mark 10:2

"And some Pharisees came up, and, in order to test Him and try to find a weakness in Him, asked, Is it lawful for a man to dismiss and *repudiate* and divorce his wife?"

- Philip was excommunicated in 1095 because he had repudiated his wife’.

- a generation that has repudiated the values of the past.

- She has publicly repudiated the government's policies.

- He published an article that repudiates the study's claims.

ORIGIN:

Late Middle English (originally an adjective in the sense ‘divorced’):

Latin repudiatus, past participle of repudiare, from repudium rejection of a prospective spouse, divorce, probably from re- + pudēre to shame.

FIRST KNOWN USE: 1545

SYNONYMS: deny, contradict, gainsay, disavow, forswear, disaffirm, disallow, disavow, disclaim, disconfirm, disown, negate, negative, refute, reject.

ANTONYMS: acknowledge, admit, allow, avow, concede, confirm, own.

REFERENCES:

Oxford Learners Dictionaries.

Merriam-Webster Dictionary.

LEXICO Oxford.

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