All 4 Uses
repudiate
in
The Adventures of Augie March
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- It wasn't so much rebellion as it was repudiation she had to fear, not being heeded, when he spread his paper over the entire table and read with his hand to his forehead and the darkening blond hair falling over it.†
Chpt 3repudiation = strong rejection
- I never repudiated her that much or tried to strike the old influence, such as it had become, out of her hands.†
Chpt 4 *repudiated = strongly rejected
- He made her gasp, unable to answer because of me, but staring at him with furious repudiation.†
Chpt 7repudiation = strong rejection
- "If this gets around to them," said Simon, out of Happy's hearing; and, strangely, his look got hung up on something that resembled satisfaction and pleasure more than anything else, and I saw that he had already handled the consequences of this to himself; he'd repudiate me, and it would do him no harm.†
Chpt 12repudiate = strongly reject
Definitions:
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(1)
(repudiate) strong rejection -- especially when the idea or thing being rejected was once embraced
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)