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disallow
English
Etymology
From Middle English disallowen, desallowen, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman desalouer, Old French desalöer; synchronically analyzable as dis- +? allow.
Pronunciation
- (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d?s??la?/
- Rhymes: -a?
Verb
disallow (third-person singular simple present disallows, present participle disallowing, simple past and past participle disallowed)
- To refuse to allow
- The prisoners were disallowed to contact with a lawyer.
- To reject as invalid, untrue, or improper
- The goal was disallowed because the player was offside.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:prohibit
Related terms
- disallowance
Translations
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repudiate
English
Etymology
From Latin repudi?tus, from repudi? (“I cast off, reject”), from repudium (“divorce”), 1540s.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /???pju?.di.e?t/, /???pju?.di.e?t/
Verb
repudiate (third-person singular simple present repudiates, present participle repudiating, simple past and past participle repudiated)
- (transitive) To reject the truth or validity of; to deny.
- Synonyms: deny, contradict, gainsay
- (transitive) To refuse to have anything to do with; to disown.
- Synonyms: disavow, forswear; see also Thesaurus:repudiate
- (transitive) To refuse to pay or honor (a debt).
- Synonym: welsh
- (intransitive) To be repudiated.
Quotations
Joyce Carol Oates: "Chaucer . . . not only came to doubt the worth of his extraordinary body of work, but repudiated it"
Eldridge Cleaver: "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."
1848: '... she dictated to Briggs a furious answer in her own native tongue, repudiating Mrs. Rawdon Crawley altogether...' — William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter XXXIV.
"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." T. S. Eliot, Andrew Marvell.
"The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution." --bell hooks
Translations
Further reading
- repudiate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- repudiate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- repudiate at OneLook Dictionary Search
References
Latin
Verb
repudi?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of repudi?
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