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▪ I. † reˈpudiate, ppl. a. and n. Obs.
[ad. L. repudiāt-us: see next.]
A. ppl. a.
1. Of a woman:
a. Rejected or put away by her husband; divorced.
1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Matt. xix. 94 The wyfe oughte not to be repudiate and cast of. 1596Drayton Leg. iv. 876 His former Wife being repudiate. 1640Yorke Union Hon. 136 He married Isabel,..being repudiate wife of King John. 1660R. Coke Power & Subj. 175 Nor his gossip, nor a Vestal nun, nor one repudiate, let no Christian man marry.
b. Rejected after betrothal or engagement.
1568Grafton Chron. II. 879 Margaret which was affied to Charles the seuenth French king and by him repudiate. 1627Drayton Mis. Q. Margaret xliii, That great Earle..tooke in high disdayne, To haue his Daughter so repudiate.
c. transf. of a river.
c1630in Risdon Surv. Devon §225 (1810) 238 All discontent, and thus repudiate, Unto the southern coast her course doth [Tamar] take.
2. In general use: Rejected, set aside.
a1548Hall Chron., Hen. IV 9 b, Edmond was..for his deformitee repudiat and put by from the croune royall. 1603Drayton Bar. Wars i. xxx, To be debarr'd of that Imperial State..Basely reiected, and repudiate.
B. n. The (or a) divorced wife.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xxiv. §54 Dominions..which they claimed by our Elenor, the repudiate of the King of France. 1665Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 321 Zaynib (the repudiate of Ben-Harkah) was his fourth and last Wife. 1727Bailey vol. II, A Repudiate, a divorced woman, one put away.
▪ II. repudiate, v.|rɪˈpjuːdɪeɪt|
[f. L. repudiāt-, ppl. stem of repudiāre to divorce, reject, etc., f. repudium repudy n.]
1. trans.
a. Of a husband: To put away or cast off (his wife); to divorce, dismiss.
1545Joye Exp. Dan. xi. 185 This Antiochus repudiated his own wyfe called Laodice. 1597Beard Theatre God's Judgem. (1612) 414 Hugh Spencer..was he that first persuaded the king to forsake and repudiate the queene his wife. 1663H. Cogan tr. Pinto's Trav. lx. 245 He had repudiated a daughter of his, which he had married three years before. 1716Bolingbroke Refl. upon Exile Wks. 1754 I. 112 His separation from Terentia, whom he repudiated not long afterward, was perhaps an affliction to him at this time. 1850W. Irving Mahomet vii. (1853) 37 Abu Labab and his wife..compelled their son, Otha, to repudiate his wife. 1870Edgar Runnymede xxxv. 202 The pope forced her husband to repudiate her.
b. To cast off, disown (a person or thing).
1699Bentley Phal. 316 Other Writers; who being Dorians born, repudiated their vernacular Idiom for that of the Athenians. 1844Dickens Mart. Chuz. xvi, He felt it necessary..to repudiate and denounce his father. 1855Prescott Philip II, I. i. iii. 31 England, after repudiating her heresies, was received into the fold of the Roman Catholic Church. 1873Daily News 12 Sept. 4/4 M. de Mahy..called upon the Ministers to repudiate the document.
2. To reject; to refuse to accept or entertain (a thing) or to have dealings with (a person).
a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VII 1 b, The damosell dyd not alonly disagre and repudiate that matrimony, but abhorred..his..desyre. 1674Govt. Tongue 100 O let not those that have repudiated the more inviting sins, show themselves philtr'd and bewitch'd by this. 1837Lofft Self-form. II. 63 Gladly would we have repudiated the property..so heavily bestowed upon us. 1862Beveridge Hist. India II. vi. viii. 802 If they repudiated the empire placed within their reach, some other power would certainly seize it. 1879M. Arnold Mixed Ess. 32 Not only did the whole repudiate the physician, but also those who were sick.
b. To reject (opinions, conduct, etc.) with condemnation or abhorrence.
1824–9Landor Imag. Conv., Lucian & Timotheus, You have acknowledged his eloquence, while you..repudiated his morals. 1840Herschel Ess. (1857) 109 A doctrine which..we must repudiate. 1865R. W. Dale Jew. Temp. viii. (1877) 85, I repudiate the dreams of Pantheism.
c. To reject (a charge, etc.) with denial, as being quite unfounded or inapplicable.
1865Dickens Mut. Fr. iii. i, The old man shook his head, gently repudiating the imputation. 1874Green Short Hist. viii. §6. 525 Politically it repudiated the taunt of revolutionary aims.
3. To reject as unauthorized or as having no authority or binding force on one.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 42 He hath obtained with some to repudiate the books of Moses. 1692Bentley Boyle Lect. ix. 304 Repudiating at once the whole Authority of Revelation. 1837Lofft Self-form. II. 174, I had repudiated the second hand faculty as vain..and delusive. 1852H. Rogers Ecl. Faith (1853) 74 You would repudiate at once his claims..to be your infallible guide. 1879Froude Short Stud. (1883) IV. v. 350 They were ready..to repudiate the authority of the Pope.
b. To refuse to discharge or acknowledge (a debt or other obligation). Chiefly of (American) states disowning a public debt, and freq. absol.
1837Lofft Self-form. I. 249 If a man..repudiate the care of his wife or children, villain is a word not villanous enough for him. 1847Webster s.v., The state has repudiated its debts. 1863H. Spencer Ess. II. 228 Sir Robert Inglis..hinted that the national debt would not improbably be repudiated if the proposed measure became law.
absol.1843Syd. Smith Wks. (1859) II. 331/2, I am accused of applying the epithet repudiation to States which have not repudiated. 1862J. Spence Amer. 74 In each of the States that has repudiated there was a large majority of men thoroughly honourable in their private affairs.
Hence reˈpudiated ppl. a., reˈpudiating vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1635J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Banish'd Virg. 143 My first businesse was to hasten the repudiating of the Queene. 1788H. Walpole Remin. ii. 24 Eldest daughter..of the repudiated wife of the earl of Macclesfield. 1843Syd. Smith Wks. (1859) II. 328/1 Persons who..are inclined to consider the abominable conduct of the repudiating States to proceed from exhaustion. Ibid. 329/1 This swamp we gained..by the repudiated loan of 1828. 1880Dixon Windsor III. xiii. 124 Henry allowed her to live with his repudiated daughter. |