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  • adjective rejecting emphatically; e.g. refusing to pay or disowning

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Examples

  • If one were tempted to believe that this defensive portrayal of the sinful poet is in any sense a major conception in English poetry, the volley of repudiative verse greeting every outcropping of the degenerate's self-exposure would offer a sufficient disproof.

    The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years Elizabeth Atkins

  • Nevertheless it would be repudiative to say that I have sophisticated my previous opinion.

    God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889

  • Nevertheless it would be repudiative to say that I have sophisticated my previous opinion.

    God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889

  • Nevertheless it would be repudiative to say that I have sophisticated my previous opinion.

    God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889

  • It enjoys the credit of being curt in its statements, brief in the expression of its opinions, perfectly silent in reference to its surmises, distinctly repudiative of the gift of prophecy, consistently averse to the attribution of motives, persistently wise in giving the shortest possible account of murders and scandalous cases, and copious in its references to literature, art, and religious progress, besides being extremely methodical in its arrangement.

    In the Track of the Troops 1859

  • "No, not all the world, Sam," said Mr. Hopewell; "there are some repudiative States that _don't keep me_; and if you go to the auction rooms, you'll see some beautiful carriages for sale, that say, 'the United States' Bank used to keep me, 'and some more that say,' Nick Biddle put me down. '"

    The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Complete Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830

  • "No, not all the world, Sam," said Mr. Hopewell; "there are some repudiative States that _don't keep me_; and if you go to the auction rooms, you'll see some beautiful carriages for sale, that say, 'the United States' Bank used to keep me, 'and some more that say,' Nick Biddle put me down. '"

    The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Volume 02 Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830

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