Literary notes about Repudiate (AI summary)
The word "repudiate" is commonly used in literature to convey a forceful rejection or disavowal, whether of personal commitments, ideas, or institutional practices. It often underscores the strength of conviction behind the act of renunciation, as when characters dismiss emotional bonds or obligations ([1], [2], [3]). Authors also employ it to denounce theories or accepted norms, thereby distancing themselves from beliefs they consider untenable or even blasphemous ([4], [5], [6], [7]). In political, social, and philosophical contexts, the term powerfully signals a clear break from an established order or tradition, reflecting both moral indignation and a striving for a more authentic stance ([8], [9], [10], [11]).
- Sulla contented himself with requiring him to repudiate his wife.
— from The Historians' History of the World in Twenty-Five Volumes, Volume 05 The Roman Republic - "She did not repudiate her mistake, as you call it, by leaving me at the altar.
— from The Mayor of Warwick by Herbert M. (Herbert Müller) Hopkins - There was but one way out of his mess: that he must commit bigamy, and deliberately repudiate his wife.
— from Florizel's Folly by John Ashton - I ever repudiate myself, and feel myself float and waver by reason of my weakness.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne - For myself I have looked into some of these fantastic theories of science, and I repudiate them as at once blasphemous and hopeless.
— from Foxglove Manor: A Novel, Volume 1 (of 3) by Robert Williams Buchanan - And the first point of his explanation is to repudiate the idea that we have any such knowledge as Professor Haeckel assumes.
— from The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer by John Gerard - I must withdraw it: I must repudiate this proud word.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Nietzsche - They repudiate every inducement to covetousness.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves - We know how many, not otherwise fools or bad men, have thought it justifiable to repudiate the national debt.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill - It is the advocates of rebels, of rebels who have sought to overthrow the Constitution and trample it in the dust—who repudiate the Constitution.
— from Lincoln's Plan of Reconstruction by Charles H. (Charles Hallan) McCarthy - You and I, and all true and patriotic citizens must repudiate this base conclusion.
— from History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II
