Lexic.us

Definition of Repudiation

1. Noun. Rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid. "Congressional repudiation of the treaty that the President had negotiated"

2. Noun. Refusal to acknowledge or pay a debt or honor a contract (especially by public authorities). "The repudiation of the debt by the city"

3. Noun. The exposure of falseness or pretensions. "The debunking of religion has been too successful"

Definition of Repudiation

1. n. The act of repudiating, or the state of being repuddiated; as, the repudiation of a doctrine, a wife, a debt, etc.

2. n. One who favors repudiation, especially of a public debt.

Definition of Repudiation

1. Noun. The act of refusing to accept; the act of repudiating. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Repudiation

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Repudiation

republicks republics republique republiques republish republished republisher republishers republishes republishing

repudiable repudiate repudiated repudiates repudiating repudiation repudiationist repudiationists repudiations repudiative

repudiator repudiators repudiatory repugn repugnable repugnance repugnances repugnancies repugnancy repugnant

Literary usage of Repudiation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Evolution of Marriage and of the Family by Charles Jean Marie Letourneau (1895)
"CHAPTER Repudiation AND DIVORCE. I. In Savage Countries.—The right of repudiation in New Caledonia, among the Hottentots, the Bongos, ..."

2. Principles of Contract at Law and in Equity: A Treatise on the General by Frederick Pollock, Gustavus Henry Wald, Samuel Williston (1906)
"What is said as to repudiation is obviously derived from Freeth v. Burr (p. ... Repudiation of Contracts. Use of repudiation is modern. ..."

3. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1910)
"What good will repudiation do ? ... The Michigan State Journal, a Whig sheet, agreed with the Advertiser that repudiation would be " an act of unutterable ..."

4. The Law of Contracts by Samuel Williston, Clarence Martin Lewis (1920)
"So, in a Massachusetts case,80 the court say: "Such a repudiation did more than excuse the plaintiff from completing a tender; it authorized him to treat ..."

5. The Spirit of Laws by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu (1794)
"As the Athenian law gave f the power of repudiation to the wife as well as the ... had fepa- rately the right of repudiation, there was a much ..."

6. The Spirit of Laws by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu (1793)
"Of divorce and repudiation. r I 'HERE is this difference between a divorce and a •*• repudiation, that a divorce is made by mutual ..."

7. International Finance and Its Reorganization by Elisha Michael Friedman (1922)
"Capital Levy is not Equivalent to Repudiation Repudiation of its debt would not solve ... Repudiation would constitute a breach of faith and would shatter ..."

8. International Finance and Its Reorganization by Elisha Michael Friedman (1922)
"Capital Levy is not Equivalent to Repudiation Repudiation of its debt would not solve ... Repudiation would constitute a breach of faith and would shatter ..."

Other Resources: