repudiation.

A firm rejection of a belief, claim, agreement, or association.

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Words that belong together

• repudiation of a claim
• a public repudiation

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Her resignation was a repudiation of the policy, not of the staff who carried it out.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Countable or uncountable by context; countable singular repudiation; plural repudiations. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, explanation. Commonness: moderately common.