Repudiate vs Refudiate - What's the difference?
repudiate | refudiate |
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.
(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 , “
As verbs the difference between repudiate and refudiate
is that repudiate is to reject the truth or validity of something; to deny while refudiate is to repudiate, to oppose.repudiate
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: "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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- 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".
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- ‘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.
