All 4 Uses of
repudiate
in
Love in the Time of Cholera
- Dr. Urbino already realized how completely he would repudiate the memory of that irredeemable woman, and he thought he knew why: only a person without principles could be so complaisant toward grief.†
Chpt 1
- ...the woman he had repudiated five hours earlier.
Chpt 1 *repudiated = rejected
- But his public conduct was so autonomous that no group claimed him for its own: the Liberals considered him a Gothic troglodyte, the Conservatives said he was almost a Mason, and the Masons repudiated him as a secret cleric in the service of the Holy See.†
Chpt 1
- Old, fat, and contented, she had arrived in the company of her oldest son who, like his father, had been a colonel in the army but had been repudiated by him because of his contemptible behavior during the massacre of the banana workers in San Juan de la Cienaga.†
Chpt 6
Definition:
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(repudiate) strong rejection -- especially when the idea or thing being rejected was once embraced