Repudiate vs Divert - What's the difference?
repudiate | divert |
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.
To turn aside from a course.
* Milton
To distract.
To entertain or amuse (by diverting the attention)
* C. J. Smith
(obsolete) To turn aside; to digress.
In lang=en terms the difference between repudiate and divert
is that repudiate is to be repudiated while divert is to entertain or amuse (by diverting the attention).As verbs the difference between repudiate and divert
is that repudiate is to reject the truth or validity of something; to deny while divert is to turn aside from a course.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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(en verb)- The workers diverted the stream away from the road.
- that crude apple that diverted Eve
- Don't let him divert your attention; keep your eye on the ball.
- We are amused by a tale, diverted by a comedy.
- I diverted to see one of the prince's palaces. — Evelyn.