Both Uses of
repudiate
in
All the King's Men
- Maybe somebody might give Callahan a little shovelful on somebody else and Callahan might grow a conscience all of a sudden and repudiate his endorser.
Chpt 1 *repudiate = strongly reject
- Cass set down a very conscientious description of every feature and proportion, a kind of tortured inventory, as though in the midst of the "darkness and trouble," at the very moment of his agony and repudiation, he had to take one last backward look even at the risk of being turned into the pillar of salt.†
Chpt 4
Definition:
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(repudiate) strong rejection -- especially when the idea or thing being rejected was once embraced