All 4 Uses of
repudiate
in
One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Repudiated by his tribe, having lost all of his supernatural faculties because of his faithfulness to life, he decided to take refuge in that corner of the world which had still not been discovered by death, dedicated to the operation of a daguerreotype laboratory.†
Chpt 3repudiated = strongly rejected
- The politicians who supplied funds for the war from exile had Publicly repudiated the drastic aims of Colonel Aureliano Buendia, but even that withdrawal of authorization did not seem to bother him.†
Chpt 9
- he scolded him strongly for learning occupations repudiated by the Liberals.
Chpt 10 *
- Every time that Aureliano mentioned the matter, not only the proprietress but some people older than she would repudiate the myth of the workers hemmed in at the station and the train with two hundred cars loaded with dead people, and they would even insist that, after all, everything had been set forth in judicial documents and in primary-school textbooks: that the banana company had never existed.†
Chpt 19repudiate = strongly reject
Definition:
strong rejection -- especially when the idea or thing being rejected was once embraced