Refudiate vs Refute - What's the difference?
refudiate | refute |
(nonstandard) To repudiate, to oppose.
* 1951 , Rulon Wells, "Predicting Slips of the Tongue"; reprinted in Victoria Fromkin (editor), Speech Errors as Linguistic Evidence , 1973, Walter de Gruyter, page
* 1980 January 23, in Report of Joint Commission on Prescription Drug Use , page 1:
* 1984 , John Sladek, The Lunatics of Terra , Wildside Press LLC (2005), ISBN 978-1-58715-410-2,
* 1987 , Mahabalagiri N. Hegde, Clinical Research in Communicative Disorders: Principles and Strategies , Little, Brown, ISBN 9780316354349, page 317:
* 1988 March 3, , quoted in Worldwide Narcotics Review of the 1988 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report , U.S. Government Printing Office, page 9:
* David Segal quoting a marijuana seller, “
* 2010 , Matt DeLong quoting , “
To prove (something) to be false or incorrect.
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To deny the truth or correctness of (something).
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As verbs the difference between refudiate and refute
is that refudiate is to repudiate, to oppose while refute is to prove (something) to be false or incorrect.refudiate
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- Blends are the simplest kind of slip of the tongue "refudiat- ing " (refuting + repudiating).
- their articles were read to determine whether the citation was to substantiate or refudiate the initial claim or was it a "quote of acceptance".
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- ‘Captain Blip? Never,’ he said, without ceasing to calculate. ‘I refudiate that.’
- ‘You what?’ Jane felt suddenly cold all over. ‘There’s no such word, Denny.’
- The value of given data can and must be judged regardless of the hypothesis they are supposed to support or refudiate .
- I am going to do everything I can along with the Chairman to see this Congress refudiate the certification of certain countries that are not complying.
When Capitalism Meets Cannabis”, in The New York Times , 2010 June 27, page BU1:
- Words are coined on the spot, like “refudiate ,” and regular words are used in ways that make sense only in context.
'Refudiating' Palin brings Shakespeare into Twitter exchange”, in the Washington Post , 2010 July 20:
- Palin tweeted that "peaceful Muslims" should "refudiate'" the New York mosque being built near Ground Zero. This prompted plenty of retweets at her expense -- "' refudiate ," of course, is not a word.
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(refut)Usage notes
The second meaning of (refute) (to deny the truth of) is proscribed as erroneous by some(compare Merriam Webster,1994). An alternative term with such a meaning is (repudiate), which means to reject or refuse to acknowledge, but without the implication of justification. However, this distinction does not exist in the original Latin , which can apply to both senses.