Literary notes about Repudiation (AI summary)
In literature, "repudiation" is employed as a potent term denoting a decisive rejection or renunciation that can be both deeply personal and broadly political. Authors use it to illustrate a character’s act of distancing oneself from past identities or affiliations, such as a gesture of emotional or moral disavowal ([1], [2], [3]). At the same time, it often carries a weighty ideological significance—portraying the formal repudiation of societal norms, debts, or even established authority ([4], [5], [6]). This dual usage allows writers to convey both the internal turmoil of individuals and the external consequences of breaking away from accepted standards.
- [rising in a frenzy of repudiation] I don’t believe it.
— from Mrs. Warren's Profession by Bernard Shaw - Eva rose pale, dissolved in tears, and put out her hand, as if in repudiation.
— from Withered Leaves: A Novel. Vol. II. (of III) by Rudolf von Gottschall - A year ago I gave Karl's repudiation of his second son to Count Ferdinand von Stroebel, the prime minister.
— from The Port of Missing Men by Meredith Nicholson - Never were measures for the repudiation of debts more strenuously agitated than in my consulship.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero - This resolution was a direct repudiation by a National Convention of the decision of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case.
— from Baltimore and the Nineteenth of April, 1861: A Study of the War by George William Brown - There is no European country in which repudiation may not soon become an important political issue.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes
