Refudiated vs Repudiated - What's the difference?
refudiated | repudiated |
(refudiate)
(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 , “
disowned
rejected as untrue or unjust
divorced such as by a spouse
(repudiate)
As verbs the difference between refudiated and repudiated
is that refudiated is past tense of refudiate while repudiated is past tense of repudiate.As an adjective repudiated is
disowned.refudiated
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(head)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".
page 77:
- ‘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.
