Both Uses of
repudiate
in
Great Expectations
- ...and should in my heart of hearts have repudiated the idea.
Chpt 19 *repudiated = strongly rejected
- This left me no course but to regret that I had been "betrayed into a warmth which," and on the whole to repudiate, as untenable, the idea that I was to be found anywhere.†
Chpt 38repudiate = strongly reject
Definition:
strong rejection -- especially when the idea or thing being rejected was once embraced