Both Uses of
repudiate
in
The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1
- Don't repudiate it.†
Chpt 15 *repudiate = strongly reject
- He remembered that Isabel, in separating from him in Winchester Square, had repudiated his suggestion that her motive in doing so was the expectation of a visitor at Pratt's Hotel, and it was a new pang to him to have to suspect her of duplicity.†
Chpt 17repudiated = strongly rejected
Definition:
strong rejection -- especially when the idea or thing being rejected was once embraced