Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who repudiates; specifically, one who advocates the repudiation of debts contracted in good faith by a state. See readjuster, 2.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who repudiates.

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  • noun One who repudiates.

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Examples

  • Standing up to the world's largest debt defaulter and repudiator would seem to be a minimal step that the SEC should take to protect the integrity of the markets it oversees.

    Argentina Has a Bond It Wants to Sell You Nancy Soderberg 2009

  • Russert was hailed as a repudiator of "gotcha" journalism, but with respect to the man's memory, I disagree.

    William Klein: This Week's Other Important Political Obituary 2008

  • Let it be understood that no repudiator of one farthing of our public debt will be trusted in public place, and it will go far toward strengthening a credit which ought to be the best in the world, and will ultimately enable us to replace the debt with bonds bearing less interest than we now pay.

    Ulysses S 1989

  • Let it be understood that no repudiator of one farthing of our public debt will be trusted in public place, and it will go far toward strengthening a credit which ought to be the best in the world, and will ultimately enable us to replace the debt with bonds bearing less interest than we now pay.

    United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches United States. Presidents.

  • Government, which has chosen this repudiator as their chief, and what of the value of the Confederate bonds now issued by him?

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • Let it be understood that no repudiator of one farthing of our public debt will be trusted in public place, and it will go far toward strengthening a credit which ought to be the best in the world, and will ultimately enable us to replace the debt with bonds bearing less interest than we now pay.

    US Presidential Inaugural Addresses Various

  • Now I am not trying to mislead you when I say that a party who proposes to pay that bond according to contract is not a repudiator, nor am I misleading when I say that a party who attempts to prevent its payment according to contract is a repudiator.

    One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed C. A. Bogardus

  • If, on the other hand, the bondholder can legally demand only the kind of money he paid, he is a repudiator and an extortioner to demand money more valuable than he gave.

    Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. John Sherman

  • Oh, she has tremendous authority and her last White Paper will stand forever as final judgment, condemning Hitler as a prevaricator of truth, as a repudiator of his solemn word, and as a bloody assassin of a peaceful, proud and valorous nation.

    Hitlerism 1939

  • He took a high tone with me at once, such as an honest man would naturally take with a confessed repudiator.

    On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners 1914

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