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Definition of Repudiating
1. repudiate [v] - See also: repudiate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Repudiating
Literary usage of Repudiating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Law of Private Corporations by Seymour Dwight Thompson (1895)
"Prevents a corporation from repudiating acts of its officers within the apparent
scope of their powers. 6252. Validates the acts of de facto officers. 6253. ..."
2. Great Debates in American History: From the Debates in the British by Marion Mills Miller, United States Congress, Great Britain Parliament (1913)
"Introduces Resolutions in the Senate repudiating Douglas's Doctrine of Popular
Sovereignty— Debate on the Resolutions: in Favor, Senator Davis, ..."
3. Elements of International Law by Henry Wheaton, Richard Henry Dana (1866)
"... how far the defrauded nation may use delay and secrecy, or even stratagem, to
regain its equal terms, before repudiating the treaty and renewing war. ..."
4. The New Laokoon: An Essay on the Confusion of the Arts by Irving Babbitt (1910)
"Coleridge begins by repudiating the kind of word-painting that Lessing has
condemned in the " Laokoon." "The presence of genius," he says, " is not shown in ..."
5. A History of the Ancient Working People: From the Earliest Known Period to by Cyrenus Osborne Ward (1889)
"... who worked lor the Gods—Big and little God-Smiths—Their Unions object to the
New Religion of Christianity because this, originally repudiating Idolatry, ..."
6. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1872)
"Any intention of repudiating the debt was denied, but it was claimed that the
interest, falling due on January and July, could not be paid, and the exact ..."
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