repudiationistn.adj.

1842 Hudson River Chron. (Sing-Sing, N.Y.) 1 Mar. 2/3 It seems that the repudiationists are determined to take the field as a party, and try their luck upon the great scale of the Union.

1863 Macon (Georgia) Daily Tel. 3 Apr. 1/2 We, the people, contracted the Confederate debt, and, now, if we, the people, refuse to endorse our own debt, thereby strengthening the confidence of the weak minded repudiationists, we ought to ‘be turned into hell with all the nations that forget God’.

1883 American 6 387 More honorable than alliances with the whiskey interest or the repudiationists of the South.

1930 Times 11 Nov. 15/4 That is the most effective way in which he can support the Government and repudiate the repudiationists.

1985 D. T. Carter When War was Over iii. 82 The political sleight of hand of the repudiationists gave conservatives a sobering demonstration that they were not the only group in postwar southern society capable of employing the threat of federal intervention to promote their own policies.

1896 Forum Jan. 592 The Democratic party has never entirely recovered from its surrender to unsound-money schemes, beginning with the repudiationist Greenback platform of 1868.

1932 New Statesman 16 Jan. 53/2 Germany is repudiationist to a man.

1995 A. Waldron From War to Nationalism (2002) 276 Gu's policies can only be described as nationalistic—indeed, extremely so. But they were not repudiationist, like the Kuomintang's.

2001 in Internat. Relations iv. 121 The irony in all of this, of course, is that such repudiationist formulations display a near panegyric celebration of the writings of white European men.