Repudiate vs Banish - What's the difference?
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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.
(label) To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
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#:If you don't stop talking blasphemes, I will banish you.
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#:He was banished from the kingdom.
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#*, Ch.V, Modern Library, 1999, p.640:
#*:Now for Christ's love, said Sir Launcelot, keep it in counsel, and let no man know it in the world, for I am sore ashamed that I have been thus miscarried; for I am banished out of the country of Logris for ever, that is for to say the country of England.
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#*:he never referreth any one unto vertue, religion, or conscience: as if they were all extinguished and banished the world.
#*1796 , (Matthew Lewis), The Monk , Folio Society, 1985, p.190:
#*:Then yours she will never be! You are banished her presence; her mother has opened her eyes to your designs, and she is now upon her guard against them.
To expel, especially from the mind.
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Repudiate is a related term of banish.
As verbs the difference between repudiate and banish
is that repudiate is to reject the truth or validity of something; to deny while banish is (label) to send someone away and forbid that person from returning .repudiate
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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." --External links
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