repudiate

verb

1. (transitive)To reject the truth or validity of; to deny.

   “The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution.”

2. (transitive)To refuse to have any relation to; to disown.

   “It was not enough just to shoot the Old Bolsheviks; Stalin had to have the show trials. He had to demonstrate publicly that these men of enormous energy and spirit were so utterly broken as to openly repudiate themselves and all they had fought for.”

   “Chaucer […] not only came to doubt the worth of his extraordinary body of work, but repudiated it.”

   “If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.”

   “The seventeenth century sometimes seems for more than a moment to gather up and to digest into its art all the experience of the human mind which (from the same point of view) the later centuries seem to have been partly engaged in repudiating.”

3. (transitive)To refuse to pay or honor (a debt).

   “'[…] she dictated to Briggs a furious answer in her own native tongue, repudiating Mrs. Rawdon Crawley altogether […]'”

4. (intransitive)To be repudiated.

adj

1. (obsolete)Repudiated by a husband, divorced.
2. (obsolete)Repudiated after betrothal or engagement.
3. (obsolete)Set aside, rejected.

noun

1. (obsolete)A divorced wife.