All 4 Uses of
repudiate
in
The Portrait of a Lady
- 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
- 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 28repudiating = 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