Hypertext Webster Gateway: "repudiated"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Repudiate \Re*pu"di*ate\ (-?t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Repudiated}
(-?`t?d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Repudiating}.] [L. repudiatus, p.
p. of repudiare to repudiate, reject, fr. repudium
separation, divorce; pref. re- re- + pudere to be ashamed.]
1. To cast off; to disavow; to have nothing to do with; to
renounce; to reject.
Servitude is to be repudiated with greater care.
--Prynne.
2. To divorce, put away, or discard, as a wife, or a woman
one has promised to marry.
His separation from Terentis, whom he repudiated not
long afterward. --Bolingbroke.
3. To refuse to acknowledge or to pay; to disclaim; as, the
State has repudiated its debts.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
repudiated
adj : any connection is denied [syn: {disowned}]
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