All 3 Uses
repudiate
in
A Thousand Acres
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- When she went to live in Vancouver, they repudiated her in specifically biblical terms.†
p. 51.5repudiated = strongly rejected
- For that matter, hadn't he been damned and repudiated, worse than abandoned—cast out—by his father as the opening event of his adult life?†
p. 69.7
- The stronger he feels it, the more wrong it feels, and he starts repudiating stuff.†
p. 352.6 *repudiating = rejecting strongly
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)