reject, disavow; disown, renounce; deny, refuse; condemn
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Repudiate Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(v. t.)
To refuse to acknowledge or to pay; to disclaim; as, the State has repudiated its debts.
To refuse to acknowledge or to pay; to disclaim; as, the State has repudiated its debts.
(v. t.)
To divorce, put away, or discard, as a wife, or a woman one has promised to marry.
To divorce, put away, or discard, as a wife, or a woman one has promised to marry.
(v. t.)
To cast off; to disavow; to have nothing to do with; to renounce; to reject.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutTo cast off; to disavow; to have nothing to do with; to renounce; to reject.
repudiate
\re*pu"di*ate\ (-?t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. repudiated (-?`t?d); p. pr. & vb. n. repudiating.] [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.
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.
3. to refuse to acknowledge or to pay; to disclaim; as, the state has repudiated its debts.
repudiate
v
1. cast off or disown: "she renounced her husband"; "the parents repudiated their son" [syn: renounce]
2. refuse to acknowledge or recognize; "the woman repudiated the divorce settlement"
To refuse to have anything to do with.
Verb
1. cast off or disown; "She renounced her husband"; "The parents repudiated their son"
(synonym) renounce
(hypernym) reject
(hyponym) apostatize, apostatise, tergiversate
(derivation) repudiation, renunciation
2. refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid; "The woman repudiated the divorce settlement"
(hypernym) reject
(derivation) repudiation
3. refuse to recognize or pay; "repudiate a debt"
(hypernym) refuse, decline
(derivation) repudiation
4. reject as untrue, unfounded, or unjust; "She repudiated the accusations"
(hypernym) deny
(derivation) repudiation, debunking
Repudiate Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Anticipatory repudiation, also called an anticipatory breach, is a term in the law of contracts that describes a declaration by the promising party to a contract, that he or she does not intend to live up to his or her obligations under the contract.
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Repudiate Definition from Law Dictionaries & Glossaries
REPUDIATE - To repudiate a right is to express in a sufficient manner, a determination not to accept it, when it is offered.
He who repudiates a right cannot by that act transfer it to another. Repudiation differs from renunciation in this, that by the former he who repudiates simply declares that he will not accept, while he who renounces a right does so in favor of another. Renunciation is however sometimes used in the sense of repudiation.
REPUDIATION - In the civil law this term is used to signify the putting away of a wife or a woman betrothed.
Properly divorce is used to point out the separation of married persons; repudiation, to denote the separation either of married people, or those who are only affianced. Divortium est repudium et separatio maritorum; repodium est renunciatio sponsalium, vel etiam est divortium. Repudiation is also used to denote a determination to have nothing to do with any particular thing; as, a repudiation of a legacy, is the abandonment of such legacy, and a renunciation of all right to it.
In the canon law, repudiation is the refusal to accept a benefice which has been conferred upon the party repudiating.
This entry contains material from Bouvier's Legal Dictionary, a work published in the 1850's.
Courtesy of the 'Lectric Law Library.He who repudiates a right cannot by that act transfer it to another. Repudiation differs from renunciation in this, that by the former he who repudiates simply declares that he will not accept, while he who renounces a right does so in favor of another. Renunciation is however sometimes used in the sense of repudiation.
REPUDIATION - In the civil law this term is used to signify the putting away of a wife or a woman betrothed.
Properly divorce is used to point out the separation of married persons; repudiation, to denote the separation either of married people, or those who are only affianced. Divortium est repudium et separatio maritorum; repodium est renunciatio sponsalium, vel etiam est divortium. Repudiation is also used to denote a determination to have nothing to do with any particular thing; as, a repudiation of a legacy, is the abandonment of such legacy, and a renunciation of all right to it.
In the canon law, repudiation is the refusal to accept a benefice which has been conferred upon the party repudiating.
This entry contains material from Bouvier's Legal Dictionary, a work published in the 1850's.
