repudiation
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
repudiation
n 1: rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid;
"Congressional repudiation of the treaty that the President
had negotiated" [syn: {repudiation}, {renunciation}]
2: refusal to acknowledge or pay a debt or honor a contract
(especially by public authorities); "the repudiation of the
debt by the city"
3: the exposure of falseness or pretensions; "the debunking of
religion has been too successful" [syn: {repudiation},
{debunking}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Repudiation \Re*pu`di*a"tion\ (r[-e]*p[=u]`d[i^]*[=a]"sh[u^]n),
n. [Cf.F. r['e]pudiation, L. repudiatio.]
The act of repudiating, or the state of being repuddiated;
as, the repudiation of a doctrine, a wife, a debt, etc.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
148 Moby Thesaurus words for "repudiation":
abjuration, abjurement, abnegation, abrogation,
absolute contradiction, agreement to disagree, alienation,
annulment, apostasy, bad debt, ban, bar, barring, blockade,
boycott, chucking, chucking out, circumscription, contempt,
contradiction, contrary assertion, contravention, controversion,
counter-culture, countering, crossing, debarment, debarring,
declension, declination, declinature, declining, default,
defection, delinquence, delinquency, demarcation, denial,
deprivation, despisal, despising, difference, disaccord,
disaffirmation, disagreement, disallowance, disapprobation,
disapproval, disavowal, discard, disclaimer, disclamation,
discounting, dishonor, dishonoring, dismissal, disobedience,
disowning, disownment, disparity, disproof, disregard,
dissatisfaction, dissension, dissent, dissentience, dissidence,
diversity, dropping out, embargo, exception, exclusion,
expatriation, forswearing, gainsaying, holding back, ignoring,
impugnment, inadmissibility, injunction, lockout, minority opinion,
narrowing, nay, negation, negative, negative answer, nix, no,
nonacceptance, nonadmission, nonagreement, nonapproval, nonassent,
noncompliance, nonconcurrence, nonconformity, nonconsent,
nonconsideration, nondischarge of debts, nonobservance, nonpayment,
nonremittal, nullification, omission, opposition, palinode,
palinody, passing by, preclusion, prohibition, protest,
protested bill, putting away, putting out, rebuff, recantation,
recusance, recusancy, refusal, refutation, rejection, relegation,
reneging, renouncement, renunciation, repulse, restriction,
retention, retractation, retraction, revocation, revokement,
scouting, secession, spurning, taboo, throwing out, thumbs-down,
turndown, turning out, uncollectible, underground, unsaying,
unwillingness, variance, withdrawal, withholding
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