repudiation

See also: répudiation

English

Etymology

From Latin repudiātiōnem, equivalent to repudiate +‎ -ion.

Noun

repudiation (countable and uncountable, plural repudiations)

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

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

Derived terms

• nonrepudiation
• anticipatory repudiation

Translations

refusing

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 拒絕／拒绝 (zh) (jùjué), 拒绝 (zh) (jùjué)

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