REPUDIATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does repudiation mean? 

• REPUDIATION (noun)
  The noun REPUDIATION has 3 senses:

1. rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid

2. refusal to acknowledge or pay a debt or honor a contract (especially by public authorities)

3. the exposure of falseness or pretensions

  Familiarity information: REPUDIATION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPUDIATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

renunciation; repudiation

Context example:

Congressional repudiation of the treaty that the President had negotiated

Hypernyms ("repudiation" is a kind of...):

rejection (the speech act of rejecting)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "repudiation"):

disclaimer ((law) a voluntary repudiation of a person's legal claim to something)

disowning; disownment (refusal to acknowledge as one's own)

Derivation:

repudiate (cast off)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Refusal to acknowledge or pay a debt or honor a contract (especially by public authorities)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

the repudiation of the debt by the city

Hypernyms ("repudiation" is a kind of...):

refusal (the act of refusing)

Derivation:

repudiate (refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid)

repudiate (refuse to recognize or pay)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The exposure of falseness or pretensions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

debunking; repudiation

Context example:

the debunking of religion has been too successful

Hypernyms ("repudiation" is a kind of...):

exposure (presentation to view in an open or public manner)

Derivation:

repudiate (reject as untrue, unfounded, or unjust)

 Context examples 

His repudiation of this offer was almost shrill enough, in the excess of its surprise and humility, to have penetrated to the ears of Mrs. Crupp, then sleeping, I suppose, in a distant chamber, situated at about the level of low-water mark, soothed in her slumbers by the ticking of an incorrigible clock, to which she always referred me when we had any little difference on the score of punctuality, and which was never less than three-quarters of an hour too slow, and had always been put right in the morning by the best authorities.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)