As verbs the difference between assent and repudiate
is that assent is to agree to, give approval while repudiate is to reject the truth or validity of something; to deny.
As a noun assent
is agreement, act of agreeing.
assent
English
Verb
(
en verb)
To agree to, give approval.
* Macaulay
- The princess assented to all that was suggested.
To admit a thing as true.
* Bible, Acts xxiv. 9
- And the Jews also assented , saying that these things were so.
Synonyms
* accede
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Noun
(
en noun)
agreement, act of agreeing
- I will give this act my assent .
Related terms
* assentor
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repudiate
English
Verb
To reject the truth or validity of something; to deny.
To refuse to have anything to do with; to disown.
To refuse to pay or honor (a debt).
To be repudiated.
Quotations
: "Chaucer . . . not only came to doubt the worth of his extraordinary body of work, but repudiated it"
: "If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America."
1848': '... she dictated to Briggs a furious answer in her own native tongue, '''repudiating Mrs. Rawdon Crawley altogether...' — William Makepeace Thackeray, '' , Chapter XXXIV.
"The seventeenth century sometimes seems for more than a moment to gather up and to digest into its art all the experience of the human mind which (from the same point of view) the later centuries seem to have been partly engaged in repudiating ." , Andrew Marvell .
"The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution." --
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