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Denounce vs Repudiate - What's the difference?

denounce | repudiate |

In lang=en terms the difference between denounce and repudiate

is that denounce is to announce the termination of; especially a treaty or armistice while repudiate is to be repudiated.

As verbs the difference between denounce and repudiate

is that denounce is (obsolete) to make known in a formal manner; to proclaim; to announce; to declare while repudiate is to reject the truth or validity of something; to deny.

denounce

English

Verb

(denounc)
  • (obsolete) To make known in a formal manner; to proclaim; to announce; to declare.
  • *, II.35:
    • Nero .
  • *
  • To criticize or speak out against (someone or something); to point out as deserving of reprehension or punishment, etc.; to openly accuse or condemn in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize; to blame.
    • to denounce someone as a swindler, or as a coward
  • * 2013 May 23, (Sarah Lyall), " British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party," New York Times (retrieved 29 May 2013):
    • Mr. Cameron had a respite Thursday from the negative chatter swirling around him when he appeared outside 10 Downing Street to denounce the murder a day before of a British soldier on a London street.
  • To make a formal or public accusation against; to inform against; to accuse.
    • to denounce a confederate in crime
    to denounce someone to the authorities
  • (obsolete) To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression; make a menace of.
    • to denounce''' war; to '''denounce punishment
  • To announce the termination of; especially a treaty or armistice.

    • Synonyms

    * attack, charge, condemn, criticize, damn, decry, discredit, inveigh against, proscribe, report

    Related terms

    * denunciate

    Derived terms

    * denouncement * denouncer

    Related terms

    (terms related to denounce) * denunciate * denunciation * denunciative * denunciator * denunciatory

    See also

    * announce * enounce * pronounce * renounce

    References

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    Anagrams

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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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