Both Uses of
repudiate
in
The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
- He exchanged greetings with Mr. Osmond, to whom he had been introduced the day before and who, after he came in, sat blandly apart and silent, as if repudiating competence in the subjects of allusion now probable.†
Chpt 28 *repudiating = rejecting strongly
- It was not that she loved Ralph less, but that almost anything seemed preferable to repudiating the most serious act—the single sacred act—of her life.†
Chpt 45
Definition:
strong rejection -- especially when the idea or thing being rejected was once embraced