Repudiate vs Excommunicate - 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.
Excommunicated.
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , John IX:
* Shakespeare
To officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community.
* , chapter=17
, title= To exclude from any other group; to banish.
As verbs the difference between repudiate and excommunicate
is that repudiate is to reject the truth or validity of something; to deny while excommunicate is to officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community.As an adjective excommunicate is
excommunicated.As a noun excommunicate is
a person so excluded.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
* * * ----excommunicate
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Adjective
(-)- the iewes had conspyred allredy that yff eny man did confesse that he was Christ, he shulde be excommunicat out of the Sinagoge.
- Thou shalt stand cursed and excommunicate .
Verb
(en-verb)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“Perhaps it is because I have been excommunicated . It's absurd, but I feel like the Jackdaw of Rheims.” ¶ She winced and bowed her head. Each time that he spoke flippantly of the Church he caused her pain.}}
