All 8 Uses of
repudiate
in
Little Dorrit
- One or another on 'em,' said the turnkey, repudiating beforehand the refusal of all his suggestions.†
Chpt 1.6
- …was no sooner gone than he sat down and wrote him a cutting note, in which he remarked that he had never on any former occasion had the honour of receiving his congratulations (which was true, though indeed there had not been anything particular to congratulate him upon), and that he begged, on behalf of himself and family, to repudiate the Marshal's offer, with all those thanks which its disinterested character and its perfect independence of all worldly considerations demanded.†
Chpt 1.36
- He may, in effect, have repudiated his connections, proudly, impatiently, sarcastically (I make the concession of both words); but he has them.†
Chpt 2.1
- Poor Little Dorrit, not seeing her way to the offering of any soothing words that would escape repudiation, deemed it best to remain quiet.†
Chpt 2.14
- No; I repudiate the title!
Chpt 2.19 *repudiate = strongly reject
- With this hopeful confession of his faith as the head of the rising Barnacles who were born of woman, to be followed under a variety of watchwords which they utterly repudiated and disbelieved, Ferdinand rose.†
Chpt 2.28
- The prisoner, with the feeling that he was more despised, more scorned and repudiated, more helpless, altogether more miserable and fallen than before, was left alone again.†
Chpt 2.28
- I repudiate, for the moment, my politeness, and say, Lies, lies, lies.†
Chpt 2.30
Definition:
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(repudiate) strong rejection -- especially when the idea or thing being rejected was once embraced