All 6 Uses
repudiate
in
The American, by Henry James
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- Newman listened to him with his impartial smile, and was glad, for his own sake, that he had fine feelings; but he mentally repudiated the idea of a Frenchman having discovered any merit in the amiable sex which he himself did not suspect.†
Chpt 7 *repudiated = strongly rejected
- Newman continued to see his friends the Tristrams with a good deal of frequency, though if you had listened to Mrs. Tristram's account of the matter you would have supposed that they had been cynically repudiated for the sake of grander acquaintance.†
Chpt 10
- M. de Bellegarde's face flushed a little, but he held his head higher, as if to repudiate this concession to vulgar perturbability.†
Chpt 12repudiate = strongly reject
- No man likes being repudiated, and yet Newman, if he was not flattered, was not exactly offended.†
Chpt 14repudiated = strongly rejected
- We of course quite repudiate the charge of having broken faith with you.†
Chpt 18repudiate = strongly reject
- We decline to accept your story, sir—we repudiate it.†
Chpt 21
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)