repudiate
verb (used with object)
to reject as having no authority or binding force.
had repudiated
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past perfectof repudiate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Franklin Roosevelt had repudiated the so-called gold clauses in private and government bond indentures, aware that upholding payment in gold would have provoked widespread bankruptcies and devastated the federal budget.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2023
Mr Anwar's agenda of the 1990s was co-opted by the target of those criticisms, the very person who had repudiated and punished Mr Anwar for his call for change.
From BBC ● May 16, 2018
Shedd asked whether Jadwat’s position would differ if Trump had repudiated his campaign remarks about Muslims.
From Washington Post ● May 8, 2017
Was it true that Goebbels had repudiated her?
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 19, 2015
For example, in the “Preface” to the Scheme of Literal Prophecy Considered he boastfully enumerated all the works—some twenty-nine—which had repudiated his earlier Discourse on the Grounds and Reasons of the Christian Religion.
From A Discourse Concerning Ridicule and Irony in Writing (1729) by Anthony Collins
