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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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banish
English
Etymology
From Middle English banysshen, from Old French banir (“to proclaim, ban, banish”) and Old English bannan, from Proto-Germanic *bannan? (“curse, forbid”). Compare to French bannir.
Pronunciation
- enPR: b?n'?sh, IPA(key): /?bæn??/
- Rhymes: -æn??
Verb
banish (third-person singular simple present banishes, present participle banishing, simple past and past participle banished)
- (heading) To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
- (with simple direct object)
- If you don't stop talking blasphemies, I will banish you.
- (with from)
- He was banished from the kingdom.
- (dated, with out of)
- (archaic, with two simple objects (person and place))
- , II.10:
- he never referreth any one unto vertue, religion, or conscience: as if they were all extinguished and banished the world […].
- 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society, 1985, p.190:
- Then yours she will never be! You are banished her presence; her mother has opened her eyes to your designs, and she is now upon her guard against them.
- , II.10:
- (with simple direct object)
- To expel, especially from the mind.
Related terms
- banishment
Translations
Further reading
- banish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- banish in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- banish at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Bhasin, ash-bin, ashbin, bash in, bashin', nisbah
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