the exposure of falseness or pretensions; " the debunking of religion has been too successful"

rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid; " Congressional repudiation of the treaty that the President had negotiated"

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

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

The act of disowning or disclaiming; refusal to pay or acknowledge.

Rejection; divorce.

Disavowal; rejection; divorce.

He did not look back, and when he had passed out of hearing, she repeated her words with a passionate repudiation of the thing he had suggested, " I'm not, Abel! – The Miller Of Old Church by Ellen Glasgow

Third: The repudiation of the rebel debt and the assumption of the proper proportion of the national debts and obligations. – The Struggle between President Johnson and Congress over Reconstruction by Charles Ernest Chadsey

The proposed Bill does not contain any specific provision giving power to the Irish administration, in the case of local repudiation, to make the counties in which repudiation had taken place repay to the Irish Treasury such sums as they had been forced to pay to the Imperial Treasury. – The New Irish Constitution by J. H. Morgan

He lifted his hand, and looked at the half crown gleaming on his palm; then, with a sudden poise of his body, and a sudden fierce action of his arm, he sent the coin, swift with his heart's repudiation, across the sands into the tide. – Malcolm by George MacDonald

There was a nominal repudiation of Borriel's act and a promise was made to inflict punishment upon 'those who have offended, ' but no punishment was inflicted upon anybody. – Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom by Trumbull White

He knew that she would assume the stacks of underwear to be a repudiation of what he was. – An Apostate: Nawin of Thais by Steven Sills

It seemed- but this may have been fancy- that there was a kindlier expression in his eyes after the emphatio repudiation of friendship with Albert. – Hyacinth 1906 by George A. Birmingham

Erasmus's hesitation in those days between the repudiation and the approbation of Luther is not discreditable to him. – Erasmus and the Age of Reformation by Johan Huizinga

Then, as if to mitigate his too feeble repudiation of the suspicion, he went on reproachfully: Really, Eva, you must not think such things of Frank. – Footsteps of Fate by Louis Couperus

We have the right to require this repudiation of their debt, because the money represented by that debt was one of the weapons with which they carried on the war against the Government of the United States. – History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by Wiliam H. Barnes

His passionate repudiation of her had been a cardinal article of his faith. – The Fortunate Youth by William J. Locke

This is all quite consistent with an utter repudiation of a hard and fast " faculty" education. – Literature in the Elementary School by Porter Lander MacClintock

If this form is used by these frauds, it is with the deliberate intention of repudiation, the possibility of payment being also destroyed by the floods of the stuff turned out. – The Red Conspiracy by Joseph J. Mereto

Gandhi has sound economic and cultural reasons for encouraging the revival of cottage industries, but he does not counsel a fanatical repudiation of all modern progress. – Autobiography of a YOGI by Paramhansa Yogananda