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Repeal vs Repudiation - What's the difference?

repeal | repudiation |

As nouns the difference between repeal and repudiation

is that repeal is an act or instance of repealing while repudiation is repudiation, refusal, refusing.

As a verb repeal

is to cancel, invalidate, annul.

repeal

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To cancel, invalidate, annul.
    • to repeal a law
  • To recall; to summon (a person) again.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The banished Bolingbroke repeals himself, / And with uplifted arms is safe arrived.
  • To suppress; to repel.
  • * Milton
    • Whence Adam soon repealed / The doubts that in his heart arose.

    Synonyms

    * annul, cancel, invalidate, revoke, veto

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act or instance of repealing.

    • Anagrams

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    repudiation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of refusing]] to accept; the act of [[repudiate, repudiating.
    • The young man's repudiation of the church's doctrines caused a conflict between him and his religious parents.

    Derived terms

    * nonrepudiation * anticipatory repudiation