repudiation

See also: répudiation

English

Etymology

From Latin repudiātiōnem, equivalent to repudiate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /rɪˌpjuːdɪˈeɪʃ(ə)n/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /rəˌpjudiˈeɪʃən/

Noun

repudiation (countable and uncountable, plural repudiations)

1. The act of refusing to accept; the act of repudiating.

   The young man's repudiation of the church's doctrines caused a conflict with his religious parents.

   • 2015 November 30, Shane O'Mara, Why Torture Doesn’t Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation‎^[1], Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 12:

     Santorum, in a comment regarding Senator John McCain's repudiation of torture, stated, "He doesn't understand how enhanced interrogation works. I mean, you break somebody, and after they've broken they become cooperative" (Summers 2011).

Derived terms

• nonrepudiation
• anticipatory repudiation
• non-repudiation

Translations

refusing

• Bulgarian: отричане (bg) n (otričane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 拒絕きょぜつ／拒こばめ绝 (zh) (jùjué)

• Dutch: afwijzing (nl), ontkenning (nl) f
• Finnish: torjuminen (fi), kieltäminen (fi)
• French: répudiation (fr)
• German: Ablehnung (de) f, Zurückweisung (de) f
• Icelandic: neitun f, höfnun (is) f
• Japanese: 拒否きょひ (ja) (きょひ, kyohi), 否認ひにん (ja) (ひにん, hinin)
• Korean: 부인 (ko) (bu'in)
• Latin: repudiātiō f, repudium n
• Russian: отка́з (ru) m (otkáz)
• Spanish: rechazo (es) m, repudio (es) m